South Carolina
- No statewide smoking ban. Instead, South Carolina's 1990 statewide smoking law, the Clean Indoor Air Law, generally prohibits smoking only in (1) public schools, excluding offices and teacher lounges (unless a local school board says otherwise), (2) childcare facilities, (3) healthcare facilities, except in designated employee smoking areas (unless the facilities chooses to be smoke free), (4) government buildings, except in designated employee smoking areas (and except the State Capitol and legislative office buildings), (5) elevators, (6) public transportation vehicles, and (7) public theatres and arenas, except in designated smoking areas in common areas, and in any such designated smoking area warning signs must be appropriately posted. The Act covers no other places. On March 31, 2008, the South Carolina Supreme Court ruled that local governments generally may regulate smoking more stringently than the Act. On September 8, 2008, the South Carolina Supreme Court ruled that the maximum fine a city or town constitutionally can impose for breaking a local smoking ban is $25. As of July 10, 2012, 48 local governments in South Carolina have enacted local smoking bans. In May 2008, four bills before the South Carolina General Assembly that sought to ban smoking statewide in all bars and restaurants failed when they did not receive a committee hearing before the end of the legislative session.
- Localities in South Carolina with smoking bans that include all bars and restaurants (47 total as of October 5, 2012):
- Aiken, July 14, 2008, banned in all enclosed workplaces, including bars and restaurants; exempts any outside area that is not posted as a non-smoking area, private residences, except when used as a daycare or health care facility, hotel and motel rooms that are designated as smoking rooms, retail tobacco stores, requested private and semiprivate smoking rooms in nursing homes and long-term care facilities, private clubs except for events that admit the general public, designated outdoor smoking areas, theatrical stage productions when smoking is essential to the performance, personal vehicles, including times when they are used for employment purposes.
- Aiken County, September 16, 2008, banned in all enclosed workplaces, including bars and restaurants.
- Atlantic Beach, May 2, 2011, prohibited in all bars and restaurants, but not in all other workplaces
- Beaufort, May 27, 2008, prohibited in all enclosed workplaces, including bars and restaurants
- Beaufort County, January 10, 2007, prohibited in all workplaces, including bars and restaurants, within unincorporated areas of Beaufort County.
- Camden, September 22, 2008, banned in all enclosed workplaces, including bars and restaurants
- Cayce, June 1, 2010, banned in all enclosed workplaces, including bars and restaurants
- Chapin, August 3, 2010, banned in all enclosed workplaces, including bars and restaurants
- Charleston, July 23, 2007, banned in all enclosed workplaces, including bars and restaurants; exempts cigar bars, theatrical performances involving smoking, and 25% of designated hotel and motel smoking rooms.
- Charleston County, South Carolina, September 1, 2012, banned in all bars and restaurants, but not in all other workplaces
- Chesnee, August 9, 2010, banned in all enclosed workplaces, including bars and restaurants
- Clemson, July 1, 2008, banned in all bars and restaurants, but not in all other workplaces
- Columbia, October 1, 2008, banned in all enclosed workplaces, including bars and restaurants
- Easley, January 1, 2009, banned in all enclosed workplaces, including bars and restaurants
- Edisto Beach, March 1, 2009, banned in all enclosed workplaces, including bars and restaurants
- Florence, November 1, 2011 banned in bars and restaurants but allows workplaces and other privately owned businesses to establish designated break rooms for smoking that are enclosed and separately ventilated from the rest of the establishment in order to be exempt from the law
- Fort Mill, August 1, 2009, banned in all enclosed workplaces, including bars and restaurants
- Greenville, January 1, 2007, banned in all enclosed workplaces, including bars and restaurants and has placed a ban for outdoor smoking within city limits
- Hampton, January 1, 2012, banned in all enclosed workplaces, including bars and restaurants
- Hartsville, October 10, 2012, banned in all enclosed workplaces, including bars and restaurants
- Hilton Head Island, May 1, 2007, banned in all bars and restaurants, but not in all other workplaces
- Hollywood, July 26, 2010 banned in all enclosed workplaces, including bars and restaurants
- Isle of Palms, January 1, 2009, banned in all bars and restaurants, but not in all other workplaces
- Lexington, October 3, 2009, banned in all enclosed workplaces, including bars and restaurants
- Lexington County, January 1, 2010, banned in all enclosed workplaces, including bars and restaurants
- Mount Pleasant, September 1, 2007, banned in all bars, restaurants, and private clubs, but not in all other workplaces
- North Augusta, August 1, 2009, banned in all enclosed workplaces, including bars and restaurants
- North Myrtle Beach, March 7, 2012, banned in all enclosed workplaces, including bars and restaurants; theatrical performances and tobacco bars are exempt from the ordinance; further exempts use of e-cigarettes
- Pendleton, February 1, 2012, banned in all bars and restaurants, but not in other workplaces
- Pickens, May 1, 2009, banned in all enclosed workplaces, including bars and restaurants
- Pine Ridge, January 1, 2010, banned in all enclosed workplaces, including bars and restaurants
- Quinby, March 1, 2012, banned in bars and restaurants but allows workplaces and other privately owned businesses to establish designated break rooms for smoking that are enclosed and separately ventilated from the rest of the establishment in order to be exempt from the law
- Ravenel, April 27, 2010, banned in all bars and restaurants, but not in all other workplaces
- Richland County, October 1, 2009, banned in all enclosed workplaces, including bars and restaurants
- Rock Hill, May 1, 2009, banned in all enclosed workplaces, including bars and restaurants
- Simpsonville, September 1, 2012, banned in all enclosed workplaces, including bars and restaurants
- South Congaree, May 18, 2010, banned in all enclosed workplaces, including bars and restaurants
- Spartanburg, September 1, 2011, banned in all enclosed workplaces, including bars and restaurants as well as outdoor functions such as Spring Fling
- Springdale, January 1, 2010, banned in all enclosed workplaces, including bars and restaurants
- Sullivan's Island, July 20, 2006, banned in all bars and restaurants, but not in all other workplaces
- Summerville, July 12, 2011, banned in bars and restaurants, but not in all other workplaces
- Sumter, April 20, 2009, banned in all enclosed workplaces, including bars and restaurants
- Surfside Beach, October 1, 2007, banned in all enclosed workplaces, including bars and restaurants
- Timmonsville, March 1, 2012, banned in bars and restaurants but allows workplaces and other privately owned businesses to establish designated break rooms for smoking that are enclosed and separately ventilated from the rest of the establishment in order to be exempt from the law
- Walterboro, August 1, 2008, banned in all enclosed workplaces, including bars and restaurants
- West Columbia, June 1, 2010, banned in all enclosed workplaces, including bars and restaurants
- York County, May 1, 2009, banned in all enclosed workplaces, including bars and restaurants
- Localities in South Carolina with smoking bans laws that do not include all bars and restaurants (2 total):
- Bluffton, January 10, 2007, banned in all enclosed workplaces except bars and restaurants
- Liberty, November 9, 2006, banned in all restaurants, but not bars or all other workplaces
- Localities in South Carolina that rejected a smoking ban in some manner (2 total):
- North Charleston, May 14, 2008, rejected a ban on smoking in enclosed workplaces.
- Folly Beach, May 28, 2008, rejected a ban on smoking in enclosed 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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