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Beijing to ban indoor smoking areas

(chinadaily.com.cn)
Updated: 2009-09-23 17:39

Beijing is going to draft laws to ban smoking areas in all public areas, the Beijing Evening News reported.

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The new draft of the legislation on smoking in public places in Beijing will be submitted to Beijing Municipal People's Congress by the end of the year, the report said.

Meanwhile, in the second half of this year, Beijing will focus on supervising the enforcement of current bans, as well as launching a campaign to help smokers quit smoking, the report said.

A professor from the Capital Medical University Cui Xiaobo, who participated in the drafting of the new law, said it will force all public places to be 100 percent smoking-free. Smoking rooms and areas will be completely removed from public places.