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Funds for worksite
smoking shelters – 8/30/05
Q: Have you ever heard of a company receiving
funds to build outside shelters for smokers, to help enforce
a smoke free worksite policy? A blue collar company we are
working with wants to support its workers when their worksite
becomes totally smoke free (even if workers are not ready
to quit now) and wanted to know if there was a funding stream
for this strategy, or if any company has received money for
this strategy in the past?
A:
- New Hampshire: No, however the DHHS "purchased"
the smoke house at below market rates because the prison
detainees built it.
- Rhode Island: No companies have received
money. However, there is a company that wanted to seal enclosed
shelters for smoking employees outside. Our law was interpreted
to mean that any enclosed structure would constitute a workplace
where smoking would be prohibited.
- West Virginia: We HAVE NOT heard of a
company receiving funds to build outside shelters. There
was a bill introduced a years ago in WV Legislature (that
thankfully never was considered in its originating committee!)
requiring any business that was declared smoke-free being
'required' to build smokers a shelter.
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