Henderson County has adopted a policy that provides smoking pens on public property. Well-intending citizens have had to “walk through clouds of smoke” to enter public buildings. That alarms people concerned about second-hand smoke. Those who choose to smoke will have to do so in a place with a slanted roof and an ash bin.

However, smoking is so bad for your health, lookie who wants to keep clouds of toxins at their doors:

All departments favored a smoke-free campus with the exception of the Emergency Medical Services and the Department of Social Services, he said. Those departments had concern for employees or clients who smoke.

“We’ve had concerns about how the clients there (at DSS) would react to that and the same to a lesser degree at the 1995 Courthouse,” [County Manager Steve] Wyatt said. “There are folks there who are a little bit nervous and they smoke and enforcement is an issue.”