The Philadelphia Smoke-Free Workplace Law and Code 10-602.5 prohibit smoking in indoor workplaces, near building entrances, and in public-park playgrounds, recreation centers, beaches at FDR Park, and SEPTA shelters. Vaping is treated as smoking under updated rules.
Philadelphia's Smoke-Free Workplace Law (Code 10-600 series) bans indoor smoking in nearly all workplaces — bars, restaurants, offices, hotels common areas — with limited exceptions for some private clubs and tobacco-only shops. Code 10-602.5 extends bans outdoors to playgrounds, recreation centers, ball fields, swimming pools, and city-maintained beaches inside parks like FDR. Pennsylvania's Clean Indoor Air Act preempts some areas, but Philadelphia's earlier law was grandfathered. Vaping was added explicitly via amendment, treating e-cigarettes as smoking. Building owners must post signage and remove ashtrays. SEPTA stations and shelters are smoke-free under separate transit rules.
Lighting up where prohibited can bring summary citations up to $250 per offense; building owners failing to post signage or remove ashtrays face escalating fines under Code 1-109 and possible Health Department orders to comply.
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