Sedalia, September 1, 2013, banned in most enclosed workplaces, including most areas of bars and restaurants, in addition to city parks and outdoor recreation areas, by a metropolis council vote of 6-2 on June 17, 2013; exempts 50% of undefined “patio space” space in any bar or restaurant, personal clubs, small workplaces (these with one employee), work autos where all passengers consent to permit smoking, non-public residences, personal autos, designated lodge and motel smoking rooms, private and semiprivate rooms in nursing homes, and retail tobacco shops. Brentwood, January 1, 2011, banned in all enclosed public places and workplaces, by City Council vote of 7-1 in August 2010; exempts designated lodge and motel smoking rooms, tobacco shops, personal houses, and non-public automobiles. St. Louis County, January 2, 2011, banned in all enclosed workplaces, together with eating places, after public vote of 65%-35% on November 3, 2009; exempts sure drinking institutions (bars having 25% or less gross gross sales of food, had been in existence on January 2, 2011, and have applied for a smoking exemption certificate), cigar bars, on line casino gaming floors, non-public clubs, performing on stage as a part of a theatrical production, non-public and semi-personal rooms in nursing homes and relaxation homes, retail tobacco retailers, smoking rooms in resorts and motels, and smoking lounges at Lambert-St.
O’Fallon, June 4, 2011, banned in all enclosed workplaces, including all bars eating places, after public vote of 73%-27% on April 5, 2011; exempts cigar bars, private clubs, retail tobacco shops, personal residences, outdoor areas, and 20% of hotel and motel rooms. St. Joseph, June 7, 2014, banned in all enclosed workplaces and public locations, together with all bars, eating places, and personal and semiprivate rooms in nursing properties, after public vote of 52.75%-47.25%; exempts private vehicles and residences, 10% of resort and motel rooms designated as smoking, private clubs (when no workers are current), and on line casino gaming areas (including bars, eating places, and lounges within these gaming areas). Branson, July 1, 2015, banned in all enclosed public places and workplaces by unanimous Board of Aldermen vote in October 2014; exempts as much as 20% of designated lodge and motel smoking rooms, tobacco shops, smoking lounges in tobacco-associated companies, non-public houses, outside areas in places of employment, out of doors patios of eating places, and golf courses. Gladstone, May 24, 2009, banned by City Council vote of 4-1 in all enclosed workplaces and metropolis parks; exempts any enterprise existing and licensed to serve liquor on January 1, 2009, that customarily permits smoking and stays below the identical possession; further exempts all bars, taverns, restaurants seating lower than 50 individuals, billiard parlors, bowling alleys, retail tobacco retailers, rented social halls, taxicabs and limousines the place each driver and passengers agree to allow smoking, stage performances involving smoking, personal clubs, non-public and semiprivate rooms in nursing houses occupied solely by smokers, and a share of hotel and motel rooms.
Warrensburg, November 30, 2010, banned in all enclosed workplaces, including bars and restaurants; exempts private clubs, retail tobacco shops, any stores whose revenue is not less than 80% from tobacco, stage performances involving smoking, designated smoking areas in institutions of higher schooling, outside patios, designated hotel/motel smoking rooms, and personal residences. Nixa, June 8, 2007, banned in all workplaces, including eating places; exempts rented social halls, taxicabs and limousines where each driver and passengers agree to permit smoking, stage performances, designated areas of shopping malls, retail tobacco retailers, and designated worker smoking areas not accessible to most people. Kirksville, July 1, 2007, banned in all workplaces, together with bars and restaurants; exempts non-public clubs. Ballwin, January 2, 2006, banned in all workplaces, including bars, and eating places; exempts non-public clubs with no staff. Boston, February 9, 2009, banned by the Boston Public Health Commission on exterior patios of bars and eating places; additionally banned on February 9, 2019 (10 years later than the opposite new restrictions), in cigar and hookah bars, until the establishment obtains a further 10-12 months exemption.
A hookah operates by water filtration and indirect heat. The law exempts private clubs when not open to the general public, private residences except when used as a enterprise for healthcare or childcare, designated hotel/motel smoking rooms, retail tobacco stores, licensed cigar or hookah bars, stage performances involving smoking, places the place smoking-associated scientific research is occurring, religious ceremonies involving smoking, outdoor areas, designated areas in nursing homes as authorised by the state, and other tobacco-associated workplaces comparable to farms and distributors. Bars, eating places that seat fewer than 50 folks, bowling alleys, billiard parlors, retail tobacco retailers, rooms and halls used for private social features, limousines and taxicabs where the driver and all passengers conform to smoking, stage performances together with smoking, indoor sports stadiums seating greater than 15,000 folks, and personal residences “are not considered a public place”. The Act exempts designated rooms in nursing homes, designated areas in psychiatric facilities, locations the place scientific studies related to smoking happen, private homes and residences not in use as a spot of employment, designated lodge/motel smoking rooms, retail tobacco shops, heavy industrial autos, farm vehicles and building equipment, buildings on household farms, the Minnesota disabled veterans’ relaxation camp, smoking by American Indians as a part of a traditional spiritual or cultural ceremony, stage performances involving smoking, and outdoor areas.
