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PTC may allow smoking rooms for businesses

By JOHN MUNFORD
jmunford@TheCitizenNews.com

Peachtree City businesses will be allowed to use totally-enclosed smoking rooms served by separate ventilation systems, if an amendment to the city’s indoor smoking ban is passed Thursday night by the City Council.

The changes recommended by staff come after a complaint from Alcan Packaging, a company in the city’s industrial park which built a smoking room for its employees last year, before council passed the indoor smoking ban. The ban forbids smoking in workplaces and other public gathering areas.

Alcan’s general manager petitioned council for the change at the previous meeting.

The proposed restrictions for smoking rooms largely come from the International Mechanical Code used by the city. The smoking rooms must exhaust all air to the outside of the building, be fully enclosed and have a negative air pressure so no smoke can drift out from the room.

The city would also require a certified test and balance report of the air flow for the smoking room. Each smoking room would also require an inspection by the city’s building official before it can be used.