In all school districts there shall be instruction in health and physical fitness, including effects of alcohol, stimulants, tobacco and narcotics on the human system. The state board of education shall cause to be prepared such study guides, materials and reference lists as it may deem necessary to make effective the provisions of this section.

(1) Public health officials have concluded that secondhand tobacco smoke causes disease, including lung cancer and heart disease, in nonsmoking adults, as well as causes serious conditions in children such as asthma, respiratory infections, middle ear infections, and sudden infant death syndrome. In addition, public health officials have concluded that secondhand smoke can exacerbate adult asthma and allergies and cause eye, throat and nasal irritation. The conclusions of public health officials concerning secondhand tobacco smoke are sufficient to warrant measures that regulate smoking in public places in order to protect the public health and the health of employees who work at public places. (2) The intent of this chapter is to protect the public health, comfort and environment, the health of employees who work at public places and the rights of nonsmokers to breathe clean air by prohibiting smoking in public places and at public meetings.

As used in this chapter: (1) "Auditorium" means a public building where an audience sits and any corridors, hallways or lobbies adjacent thereto. (2) "Bar" means any indoor area open to the public operated primarily for the sale and service of alcoholic beverages for on-premises consumption and where: (a) the service of food is incidental to the consumption of such beverages, or (b) no person under the age of twenty-one (21) years is permitted except as provided in section 23-943, Idaho Code, as it pertains to employees, musicians and singers, and all public entrances are clearly posted with signs warning patrons that it is a smoking facility and that persons under twenty-one (21) years of age are not permitted. "Bar" does not include any area within a restaurant. (3) "Employer" means any person, partnership, limited liability company, association, corporation or nonprofit entity that employs one (1) or more persons, including the legislative, executive and judicial branches of state government; any county, city, or any other political subdivision of the state; or any other separate unit of state or local government. (4) "Indoor shopping mall" means an indoor facility located at least fifty (50) feet from any public street or highway and housing no less than ten (10) retail establishments. (5) "Public meeting" means all meetings open to the public. (6) "Public place" means any enclosed indoor place of business, commerce, banking, financial service or other service-related activity, whether publicly or privately owned and whether operated for profit or not, to which persons not employed at the public place have general and regular access or which the public uses including:

• (a) Buildings, offices, shops or restrooms;
• (b) Waiting rooms for means of transportation or common carriers;
• (c) Restaurants;
• (d) Theaters, auditoriums, museums or art galleries;
• (e) Hospitals, libraries, indoor shopping malls, indoor sports arenas, concert halls, or airport passenger terminals, and within twenty (20) feet of public entrances and exits to such facilities;
• (f) Public or private elementary or secondary school buildings and educational facilities and within twenty (20) feet of entrances and exits of such buildings or facilities;

1) No person shall smoke in a public place, publicly-owned building or office, or at a public meeting, except in the following which may contain smoking areas or be designated as smoking areas in their entirety:

• (a) Bars;

• (b) Retail businesses primarily engaged in the sale of tobacco or tobacco products;

• (c) Buildings owned and operated by social, fraternal, or religious organizations when used by the membership of the organization, their guests or families, or any facility that is rented or leased for private functions from which the public is excluded and for which arrangements are under the control of the sponsor of the function;

• (d) Guest rooms in hotels, motels, bed and breakfast lodging facilities, and other similar lodging facilities, designated by the person or persons having management authority over such public lodging establishment as rooms in which smoking may be permitted;

• (e) Theatrical production sites, if smoking is an integral part of the story in the theatrical production;

• (f) Areas of owner-operated businesses, with no employees other than the owner-operators, that are not commonly open to the public;

• (g) Any office or business, other than child care facilities, located within the proprietor's private home when all such offices and/or businesses occupy less than fifty percent (50%) of the total area within the private home;

• (h) Idaho state veterans homes, established pursuant to section 66-901, Idaho Code, that permit smoking in designated areas, provided that physical barriers and ventilation systems are used to reduce smoke in adjacent nonsmoking areas; and

• (i) A designated employee breakroom established by a small business owner employing five (5) or fewer employees, provided that all of the following conditions are met:

• (i) The breakroom is not accessible to minors;

• (ii) The breakroom is separated from other parts of the building by a floor to ceiling partition;

• (iii) The breakroom is not the sole means of entrance or exit to the establishment or its restrooms and is located in an area where no employee is required to enter as part of the employee's work responsibilities. For purposes of this paragraph, the term "work responsibilities" does not include custodial or maintenance work performed in a breakroom when it is unoccupied; and

• (iv) "Warning: Smoking Permitted" signs are prominently posted in the smoking breakroom and properly maintained by the employer. The letters on such signs shall be at least one (1) inch in height

• (2) This section shall not be construed to require employers to provide reasonable accommodation to smokers, or to provide breakrooms for smokers or nonsmokers.

• (3) Nothing in this section shall prohibit an employer from prohibiting smoking in an enclosed place of employment.