Kentucky
- No statewide smoking ban. Instead, in Kentucky, the only state laws dealing with smoking prohibit smoking in government offices, universities, and the state capitol, except in designated smoking areas. In 2004, the Kentucky Supreme Court ruled that the state's food and tobacco sales laws do not preempt cities and counties from enacting smoking regulations of any kind. In 2011 and 2012, bills to enact a statewide smoking ban in all enclosed workplaces, including all bars, restaurants, and gaming facilities, as well as a bill in 2011 to ban smoking in cars in which minors are riding, all failed before the Kentucky General Assembly when they did not receive a committee hearing in the Kentucky House of Representatives.
- Localities in Kentucky with smoking bans that include all bars and restaurants (24 total):
- Ashland, October 1, 2006, banned in all enclosed workplaces, including bars and restaurants, as well as outdoor venues and outdoor patio areas of restaurants and bars.
- Bardstown, banned in all enclosed workplaces, including bars and restaurants
- Bowling Green January 25, 2011 banned in all enclosed workplaces, including bars and restaurants.
- Campbell County rolled back a smoking ban on personal freedom grounds.
- Campbellville, banned in all enclosed workplaces, including bars and restaurants
- Clark County, banned in all enclosed workplaces, including bars and restaurants
- Corbin, banned in all enclosed workplaces, including bars and restaurants
- Danville, Kentucky, July 28, 2008, banned in all enclosed workplaces, including bars and restaurants, as well as within ten feet of the entrance of any such place
- Elizabethtown, Kentucky, banned in all enclosed workplaces, including bars and restaurants
- Frankfort, July 25, 2006, banned in all bars and restaurants, but not in all other workplaces
- Georgetown, October 1, 2005, banned in all enclosed workplaces, including bars and restaurants
- Franklin County, May 4, 2012, banned in bars and restaurants, but not other enclosed workplaces
- Glasgow, banned in bars and restaurants, but not all other workplaces
- Hardin County, banned in all enclosed workplaces, including bars and restaurants, in unincorporated areas of the county
- Lexington, April 27, 2004, banned in all enclosed workplaces, including bars and restaurants
- London, banned in all enclosed workplaces, including bars and restaurants
- Louisville, January 11, 2008, banned in all enclosed workplaces, including bars and restaurants.
- Madison County, June 12, 2007, banned in all enclosed workplaces, including bars and restaurants; exempts outdoor patio areas of restaurants and bars (bars are only allowed in the city of Richmond, since the rest of the county is dry).
- Mancher, January 29, 2012, banned in all enclosed workplaces, including bars and restaurants
- Morehead, banned in all enclosed workplaces, including bars and restaurants
- Paducah, April 1, 2007, banned in all bars and restaurants, but not in all other workplaces
- Paintsville, 2006, banned in all bars and restaurants, but not all other workplaces
- Prestonburg, banned in all enclosed workplaces, including bars and restaurants
- Radcliff, banned in all enclosed workplaces, including bars and restaurants
- Somerset, January 23, 2012, banned in all enclosed workplaces, including bars and restaurants; exempts private clubs when not open to the public
- Localities in Kentucky with smoking bans that do not include all bars and restaurants (7 total):
- Daviess County, January 1, 2006, banned in any public establishment open to children under 18, but exempts private businesses and bars.
- Henderson, banned in all enclosed workplaces, excluding bars and restaurants
- Kenton County, banned in all workplaces, except for eating/drinking establishments and private clubs that meet requirements for exemption.
- Letcher County, July 1, 2006, banned in restaurants, but not bars or other workplaces
- Oldham County, banned in all restaurants, but not bars or all other workplaces
- Paintsville, banned in restaurants, but not bars or other enclosed workplaces
- Pikeville, banned in all restaurants, but not bars or all other workplaces
Read more about this topic: List Of Smoking Bans In The United States, Smoking Laws of The United States By State
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