Clean Indoor Act reaches milestone

Publication Date: 2016-07-01

• Publication:Mountain Mail Newspaper

The Colorado Clean Indoor Air Act continues to prohibit indoor smoking 10 years after it was adopted by state lawmakers on July 1, 2006.

Designed to protect Coloradans from exposure to secondhand smoke, the law has been credited for reducing smoking at home, the workplace and elsewhere, according to a press release from Chaffee County Public Health.

"We've really made great strides in Colorado toward protecting our residents from secondhand smoke and helping to keep them healthy," said Andrea Carlstrom, public health director...