The State : Smoking Law to Be Ignored

Three major airlines and Amtrak said they will not comply with a new California law that bans smoking in public transportation effective Jan. 1. American, PSA and United reiterated their opposition after Delta announced that it would obey the law. A federal law banning smoking on flights shorter than two hours takes effect April 22. The major airlines said they will impose the federal smoking restriction on that date but that the state law is preempted by federal law in the meantime.