Smoking laws globally

Outdoor smoking restrictions[edit]

• It is illegal to smoke at a bus shelter in Ireland. It was also the first country in the world to impose a restriction upon smoking outdoors within 3-metres of a public building.
• In Costa Rica it is also illegal to smoke at a bus shelter or at lines for the bus, train, etc.. It is also forbidden to smoke in public parks and recreational areas.
• In the Australian state of Queensland, smoking is prohibited within four metres of entrances to public buildings, within 10 metres of children's playground equipment, in commercial outdoor eating or drinking areas, at patrolled beaches, and at all major sports stadiums.^[202]
  • Some beaches in Sydney, Australia have smoking restrictions place.
  • Smoking on land owned by the NSW Department of Education is prohibited.
• Cambridge Memorial Hospital in Cambridge, Ontario, Canada, enacted a total (outdoor) smoke-free regulation, believed to be the first in the entire province if not country, as of October 2004. At the same time, Wilfrid Laurier University in the nearby city of Waterloo, Ontario, proposed a similar total smoke-free regulation on its property, after its 10 metre outdoor proximity restriction (enacted in 2002) failed. WLU was presumed to be the third Canadian (public) post-secondary institution to consider such measures, after Carleton and Acadia.
  • Smoking is prohibited in Hamilton Street Railway bus shelters in Hamilton, Ontario.
  • It is illegal to smoke on a bus or in a bus shelter in Winnipeg, Manitoba.
  • It is illegal to smoke on a bus or in a bus shelter as well as any less than 4 metres from any entrance in Halifax, Nova Scotia.
  • Calgary, Alberta, prohibited all outdoor patio smoking at bars, restaurants and casinos on 1 July 2005. Nova Scotia did the same on 1 December 2006.
• Calabasas, California, United States, prohibited smoking in almost all indoor and outdoor public places in 2006, believed to be the strictest such regulations in the United States. At least 13 California cities (including Los Angeles) have prohibited smoking on their beaches, at least four other California cities (including San Francisco) ban smoking in parks or outdoor venues. For more information, see List of smoking bans in the United States#Outdoor smoking bans.
  • Belmont, California, prohibited smoking in outdoor places on 25 September 2007; this also applies inside condominiums, apartments and other kinds of multi-unit housing.^[203][204]
  • California has prohibited smoking within 20 feet (6.1 m) of entrances to any public building.
• Selected wards in Tokyo, Japan, prohibit smoking on the streets; this is enforced and violators are fined.
  • 56% of Chiyoda ward's land area is a no-smoking zone as of April 2007.
  • Kyoto, Japan, has prohibited smoking on 7.1 km of its streets in 2007, including busy areas along Kawaramachi, Karasuma-dori and Shijo Street avenues.
  • Railway stations in Japan are no-smoking except for a few remaining long distance services.
• Many UKNHS organisations prohibit smoking on their premises both inside and outside hospitals, including places such as car parks.
• In Hong Kong, smoking restrictions are imposed on most public recreational areas and beaches. It is up to districts to designate which public recreational areas are exempt, and some prohibit smoking districtwide. Many playgrounds in public housing estates have also become smoke-free. Some public transport interchanges, as designated by the government, have been smoke-free since 1 September 2009.
• Smoking is prohibited on all railway platforms in England, regardless of whether they are covered or not. These measures were introduced before any national smoking ban for safety reasons^[205]
• It is illegal to smoke on the outdoor property of the institutions of public education in Slovenia, penalties are dictated by internal orders of the concerned institutions.
• It is illegal to smoke in some bus shelters (complex rules determine which, leading to variable compliance) and telephone boxes in Scotland.

Other restrictions[edit]

In some countries, such as Germany, India and Russia, earlier smoke-free regulations allowed for smoking sections in restaurants, as well as possible special rooms for use by smokers in other workplaces (though many employers prefer not to incur the costs of building and maintaining such rooms).

• All public and Catholic schools in the Region of Waterloo in Ontario, Canada, prohibited smoking on school property in Autumn 1994. A province-wide smoking ban on school property was scheduled to begin for the 2007/2008 school year in British Columbia, Canada.
• A tobacco fatwa was issued in Iran in 1891 and Egypt in 2000.
• Australia has a federal law prohibiting the manufacture and sale of all smokeless tobacco products. The sale of oral snuff and chewing tobacco has been banned since 1989 under the Trade Practices Act 1974.^[206]

Proposed smoke-free laws[edit]

In the Czech Republic, there is a bill to prohibit smoking in all public areas and in all enclosed areas in pubs, restaurants, bars and others that do not have a separate room designated for smoking that has permanent ventilation and does not have an effect on smoke-free sections. There have recently been several bills proposing similar smoking restrictions, but these have never been enacted by the Chamber of Deputies.^[207]

New Caledonia is likely to introduce restrictions on smoking in public places following a 2007 25-nation global air-quality monitoring initiative.^[208]

Niue is considering banning tobacco completely, and is seeking the cooperation of Australia and New Zealand to ensure that no tobacco can be imported into the country.^[209] In 2008, a bill was introduced in outlawing both the sale of tobacco and smoking, but it is yet to be implemented.^[118]

Some Singapore citizens have launched an online campaign to support the proposal to prevent the supply of tobacco to Singaporeans born from the year 2000.^[210]

New Zealand hopes to be smoke-free in 2025 and as of 2010 all selling of tobacco has stopped. ASH New Zealand is a group of people who believe New Zealand should be smoke-free and have become popular. The Ministry of Health and the Minister of Health also are trying to promote the idea that New Zealand should be smoke-free.

In the United Kingdom, there have been calls from MPs for the prohibition of smoking in cars that have children in them ^[211] This has been further advocated by doctors and the devolved governments of Wales and Northern Ireland ^[212]

Lack of smoke-free regulation[edit]

Some countries have no legislation restricting smoking whatsoever; these include Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, and a number of other countries in Central and Western Africa.

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