A complaint seeking to ban smoking in the county’s buildings and facilities on the grounds that a state statute assuring the right of “handicapped persons” to full participation in the social and economic life of the state would require such a prohibition.  The Court of Appeals of North Carolina dismissed the complaint, contending that the legislature did not have smoking in mind when enacting the statute.

256 S.E. 2d 477, 42 N.C. App. 225, (1979)