Workplace smoking prohibition: long-term health care facilities.

Existing law prohibits an employer from knowingly or intentionally permitting, and a person from engaging in, the smoking of tobacco products in an enclosed space at a place of employment. Existing law provides that "place of employment" for purposes of that prohibition does not include, among other places, patient smoking areas in long-term health care facilities, as defined. Existing law provides that any violation of that prohibition is an infraction, punishable by a fine not to exceed $100 for a first violation, $200 for a 2nd violation within one year, and $500 for a 3rd and for each subsequent violation within one year.