More than half of all states now have some sort of workplace smoking ban. Just how far will HR have to go to enforce them?

In Wales, the answer might be, pretty far.

Gordon Williams, a painter from Wales, has been fined for breaching Great Britain’s smoking ban — by lighting up in his own van.

Officials told him his van was classified as a workplace. He was fined 30 pounds, about $60.

Williams says he’d understand being fined if he were a bus driver where he had contact with the public. But no one else encounters the smoke inside his van.

The County Council that issued the fine declined to comment.

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