Cory Reeves

For two decades, this important piece of bipartisan legislation has protected the health of Montana workers and community members in our public indoor spaces, including all workplaces, bars, casinos and restaurants.

As stated in Montana law, the purpose of the CIAA is to:

Protect the public health and welfare by prohibiting smoking in public places and places of employment;

Recognize the right of nonsmokers to breathe smoke-free air; and

Recognize that the need to breathe smoke-free air has priority over the desire to smoke.

Those of us who remember visiting places where smoking was allowed – even those with ineffective “smoking sections” – remember contending with secondhand tobacco smoke permeating our airspace, settling in our lungs, its scent lingering in our clothes

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