Killington, Home to Soon To Be Smoke-Free Pico
The smoking ban that has swept across Europe in recent years has left most après ski bars and restaurants smoke free.
However several small ski areas in the US have gone a stage further and banned smoking outdoors too, on their slopes.
The latest is Pico Mountain, a stand alone part of Killington resort in Vermont.
Whether it's legally possible to ban smoking outdoors in Europe is a contentious point. Smoking is normally banned in gondolas and cable car cabins but not on chairlifts, and French resorts in particular spent hundreds of man hours collecting tens of thousands of cigarette butts from the slope beneath the chairlifts after the snow melts. In some cases resorts hand out portable she trays to try to discourage people from dropping their cigarette butts on the snow.
The smoking ban at Pico will begin on New Year's Day.
Local media reports the initiative is partly because the resort is working with cancer charities to look at the ways to reduce secondary smoke dangers to staff and resort guests, and partly due to research showing that non-smokers don't like standing in lift lines next to smoking smokers.