SAN DIEGO - Dennis Sammut, the owner of Artichoke Joe's in San Bruno, runs a licensed gaming club. "The smoking of tobacco products by patrons is prevalent within (its) enclosed confines," it says in a petition to the superior court. Labor Code 6404.5, enacted in 1994, prohibits smoking in all enclosed worksites in California, but the statute provided premises where smoking was historically permissible with a two-year window. They were also given a two-year "safe harbor" in which affected businesses c
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