Smoking is prohibited inside virtually all Pittsburgh workplaces, restaurants, and public accommodations under Pennsylvania's Clean Indoor Air Act of 2008. Pittsburgh layers local rules covering city parks, playgrounds, and outdoor stadium plazas.
Pennsylvania's Clean Indoor Air Act, 35 P.S. Section 637.1 et seq., bans smoking indoors at workplaces, restaurants, and most enclosed public spaces, with limited exemptions for cigar bars and small drink-only taverns. Pittsburgh has enacted complementary outdoor restrictions banning smoking in city parks, on playground grounds, near building entrances of city facilities, at PRT transit stops, and inside Acrisure Stadium, PPG Paints Arena, and PNC Park concourses under Sports and Exhibition Authority policy. E-cigarettes and vaping fall under the same restrictions as combustible tobacco. Allegheny County Health Department enforces indoor rules; Pittsburgh Bureau of Police and park rangers enforce outdoor rules.
Indoor smoking violations bring fines under PA Clean Indoor Air; outdoor park smoking yields city citations starting around $25, escalating with repeat offenses to several hundred dollars.
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