50-40-102. Intent -- purpose. The legislature finds and declares that the purposes of this part are as follows:
     (1) to protect the public health and welfare by prohibiting smoking in public places and places of employment;
     (2) to recognize the right of nonsmokers to breathe smoke-free air; and
     (3) to recognize that the need to breathe smoke-free air has priority over the desire to smoke.

     History: En. Sec. 2, Ch. 368, L. 1979; amd. Sec. 4, Ch. 361, L. 2003; amd. Sec. 2, Ch. 268, L. 2005.