By Delaware News Desk, Dover Post; November 1, 2019
In honor of Lung Cancer Awareness Month, Sen. Tom Carper, D-Delaware, former Amtrak board member and top Democrat on the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, introduced legislation that would ban smoking on Amtrak.
Carper’s legislation, the Banning Smoking on Amtrak Act of 2019, would codify the existing Amtrak policy that prohibits smoking. Consistent with Amtrak’s current internal policy, this ban would apply to all tobacco use, including electronic cigarettes. Companion legislation was introduced in the House of Representatives by Rep. Eleanor Holmes Norton, D-Washington, D.C., earlier this year.