Smoke Banning Regulations around the world..
NEW! Kentucky's public place smoking ban started August 5, 2009.
NEW! In South Africa, it's illegal to smoke in a car where children are present. Also there are higher penalties (up to R50 000; R500 for individuals) for restaurant and pub owners if smokers are caught smoking outside smoking zones (Aug 4, 2009).
NEW! Cook County, Illinois' Stroger Hospital bans hospital ground smoking, including at outdoor properties.
NEW! About 1,000 Turks gathered to protest the one month old smoking ban in Turkey.
* A southwest Turkey restaurant owner was shot and killed when he tried to stop customers from smoking; an attempt to comply with the new smoking ban (Hurriyet daily).
NEW! Sao Paulo, Brazil outlaws public place smoking indoors, except homes and the open air.
NEW! 14,000 people in Bahrain were caught breaking the smoking ban by inspectors. 2,060 of them were under 18 years old (Gulf Daily News).
NEW! Laos will ban smoking in nearly all public places.
NEW! Vietnam bans smoking in all indoor public places starting in 2010. Tariffs on tobacco products will be raised too.
NEW! Just Say No! Shanghai World Expo 2010 organizers turned down a $29.3 million sponsorship from Shanghai Tobacco.
NEW! More than 26,000 Ukrainian smokers were fined in first half of 2009 for smoking in no smoking places.
NEW! Pakistan imposes a public place smoking ban countrywide.
NEW! Southern British Columbia, Canada's parks now ban smoking, BBQs snd campfires because of the risk of forest fires.
NEW! Parliament House in Western Australia has banned smoking.
NEW! Macao Special Administrative Region (SAR) strengthens its smoking-control law to include a ban on all indoor smoking. A 300 percent bump in fines is also included.
NEW! The Galveston, TX city council green-lights a public place smoking ban that includes restaurants, bars, private clubs and tobacco stores starting January 1, 2010.
NEW! Louisiana restricts smoking to designated areas and certain hours at its state correctional facilities for prisoners, prison staff and visitors starting August 15, 2009.
NEW! Richmond, CA became the San Francisco Bay area's toughest place for smokers when they implemnted a ban on smoking in apartments, condos and public places.
NEW! New South Wales bans smoking in cars with kids under the age of 16 starting July 1, 2009.
NEW! Nevada inmates go smoke-free on July 1, 2009.
NEW! Channel Island government voted to ban smoking voluntarily.
NEW! Europe's heaviest smoking nation, Greece, to ban outlaw indoor public place smoking in 2010. Also no one under the age of 18 can buy tobacco products.
* Greece kicks off an 6 month anti-smoking campaign on July 1 leading the way to its 2010 indoor public place smoking ban.
NEW! Turkey, a bastion for smokers, is set to extend its existing smoking ban to bars and restaurants starting mid-July 2009.
NEW! In Victoria (Australia) a smoking ban in cars with children under the age of 18 begins January 2010. Cigarettes can no longer be displayed in shops too.
* The Hobart City Council (Australia) banned smoking in most public areas within ten metres of council playgrounds.
NEW! Eagle is the first Idaho town to ban smoking at public places.
NEW! Poland's indoor public place smoking ban will likely take effect by the end of 2009. Passenger cars with children aboard are also included in the ban.
Wisconsin's smoking ban at all restaurants and taverns starts July 5, 2010. Governor Doyle signed the law that he sponsored.
Smoking areas at Foxwoods Resort Casino have been limited to inside the casino following a voluntary agreement between the Mashantucket Pequot Tribal Council and Connecticut Governor, M. Jodi Rell.
* A voluntary agreement was reached with the Mohegans for the Mohegan Sun Casino to ban smoking at its bars and restaurants and installed ventilation systems to remove second-hand smoke by Governor Rell.
NEW! Cyprus will ban smoking in bars, restaurants, nightclubs and workplaces on January 1, 2010. This law is supposed to clamp down on the existing ban in place since 2002 which is not being enforced.
NEW! Bulgaria bans public place smoking on June 1, 2010.
NEW! Libya plans ban smoking in public places. Media ads of all tobacco products, candy shaped like cigarettes and items sporting tobacco logos will be banned as well.
NEW! China bans smoking in all hospitals and medical facilities in 2011.
NEW! Electronic smoking products and devices (ecigarettes, ecigars, ecigarillos and epipes and there nicotine cartridges) are banned by Health Canada.
NEW! In Ireland, about 88% of fines for violating the smoking ban in Belfast are commercial drivers. The ban has been in force two years.
NEW! Punishment! Smoke on a plane in Saudi Arabia and get 30 lashes if you refuse to put it out. This is what happened to a Sudanese man when he was arrested in Jeddah and tried by a local court.
NEW! Gambia's public smoking ban (Public Places Act 1998) finally goes live. It covers all government premises, workplaces, hospitals / health facilities, private property, vehicles and shops with public access.
Actor Tom Cruise is said to have "banned" his wife, Katie Holmes, from smoking. Katie underwent The Church of Scientology's (Tom & Katie's religion) Purification Rundown and "Scientology Sparkle" routines as a result.
South Dakota is the 25th state to ban smoking in restaurants and bars. The ban starts July 1, 2009 and has a $25 fine.
President Barack Obama says no smoking in the White House. . . even though he himself is still battling to break free from smoking.
NEW! Slovakia's parliament on passed a partial smoking ban at restaurants. Pubs and cafes are immune.
A Indonesian Ulema Council (the highest religious council in Indonesia) meeting in Padangpanjang found that smoking was haram (banned) for Muslim pregnant women and children and that it was haram for Muslim men to smoke in public places.
In India, 6 months after the anti-smoking law, around 18,925 people have been fined producing more than Rs.2.5 million in fines.
In India, the High Court in Delhi overturned a national ban on showing smoking scenes in movies, citing freedom of speech and expression as a reason.
Delhi University (India) plans to make 83 affiliated colleges smoke-free as described in the Smoke Free Initiative.
Bollywood stars Salman Khan and Ajay Devgan Salman have been fined 5 times each for smoking in public in just 3 days in Chandigarh and in neighbouring Punjab (India).
Smoke on a train in China and you may get detained for 3 days. A Chinese man caught smoking in the toilet of a train paid the price for violating the smoking ban.
NEW! Outlawing smoking on college campuses is a hot new trend, worldwide. Several American states are in on it as well.
A federal prisoner was sentenced to an additional two years behind bars for bribing a guard to smuggle cigarettes into the Oxford prison in Wisconsin.
NEW! Montana's smoking ban at bars and casinos to start October 1, 2009.
NEW! North Carolina bans smoking at restaurant starting January 2, 2010.
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