The state Senate today will consider Senate Bill 246, which supporters said would ban smoking in at least 90 percent of the state's public places and workplaces. The bill does, however, contain a list of "exceptions," places where smoking would still be permitted. They include:

• A private home or vehicle, unless the home or vehicle is used for child-care services or adult day-care services.

• Up to 25 percent of hotel/motel rooms.

• At a "full service truck stop," meaning "an establishment catering to long-haul truck drivers that provides shower facilities for a fee."

• A tobacco retail shop, or a building used by tobacco manufacturers or wholesalers, or a manufacturer of tobacco-related products such as lighters, or a tobacco leaf dealer or a tobacco storage facility.

• A separate enclosed room or designated smoking room in a residential adult care facility, community mental health care facility or drug and alcohol facility.

• A designated smoking room in a facility that provides daily medical treatment programs.

• Private, membership-only clubs that have existed for the past 10 years and where officers vote to allow smoking by members.

• A location where a fund-raising event is held by a nonprofit, charitable group only once per year and food and beverages are available to those who attend, as long as the smoking area is separate from other public areas during the event and youths under 18 aren't allowed to attend.

• An exhibition hall or conference room used exclusively for an event where tobacco products are being sampled.

• A cigar bar, defined as a tavern where cigars are sold from humidors and the sale of cigars makes up at least 15 percent of total revenue.

• Smaller "mom and pop" taverns and bars, where food sales don't exceed 20 percent of total revenue.

• Up to 25 percent of the slots floor at 12 of the state's 14 casinos; however, if the owner can prove "economic hardship," meaning a drop-off in customers due to the ban on smoking on 75 percent of the gaming floor, smoking can be allowed on up to 50 percent of the slots floor. The two casinos planned for Philadelphia will be totally smoke-free, because they are governed by that city's year-old ordinance, not the new state law.

• A designated outdoor smoking area within the confines of a sports or recreational facility or theater.