The regulations allow for the Government to extend smoke-free law to bus shelters. Is this a step towards banning smoking altogether?
The Government believes that people should have the choice to smoke, but believes it is also right that people are both made aware of the major health risks of smoking and also provided with support to quit. Importantly, we believe that at the same time, it is right that others should be protected from exposure to hazardous secondhand tobacco smoke. This is what we are achieving through this law, where smoking has been stopped in virtually every enclosed public place and workplace in this country. Although smoke-free law does include provision to make non-enclosed places smoke-free, the Government has no intention to use those powers at present. That means that smoking will still be permitted outside of buildings and in other non-enclosed places.
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