Smokers to have separate break-rooms
Certain county businesses will have to set up separate break-rooms for smokers or tell them to take their butts outside. Starting next week, lighting up will no longer be permitted in break rooms used by smokers and nonsmokers alike. We actually enforce businesses smoke free policies, Amy Moore, coordinator for tobacco prevention programs at Ingham County Health Department. The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health found that second-hand smoke increases the risk of lung cancer and heart disease to people who are exposed in the workplace. The statewide group did a survey and about 85 percent of workers already work in smoke-free places, Moore said.