designated smoking areas Archives

21 February 2024

Doctors, Cancer Groups Back Health Minister’s Designated Smoking Areas Proposal

The Malaysian Medical Association and the National Cancer Society Malaysia support Dr Dzul's proposal for designated smoking areas as this will denormalise smoking. Japan, which provides designated smoking areas, has lower smoking prevalence than Malaysia.

23 January 2020

Malaysia

Activists Fine With ‘Temporary’ Smoking Zones, But Not Ampang Model

Anti-smoking activists are now fine with designated smoking zones as long as they’re temporary and don’t involve public funds.

22 January 2020

Malaysia

KPKT’s Smoking Area Guidelines: Simple, Makeshift, No Littering

Forming designated smoking areas was a Cabinet decision made on November 22, 2019.

13 January 2020

Malaysia

Zuraida Reviewing RM1Mil Allocation For 155 Smoking Zones

The minister says the allocation for local councils to set up special smoking zones in public is not for one smoking zone, but 155 zones.

10 January 2020

Malaysia

Backlash Won’t Stop Zuraida’s Designated Smoking Areas Plan

The housing and local government minister says her administration needs to facilitate the needs of the people, even those who light up.

10 January 2020

Malaysia

Designated Areas Unnecessary, Smoke ‘Anywhere Else’, Say Advocates

Only 23 types of places have been gazetted as anti-smoking zones, so smokers can still light up at other unrestricted public areas.

8 January 2020

Malaysia

Eateries Question Cost, Safety Of Outside Smoking Areas

Various countries like Japan and Italy provide smoking rooms in restaurants.

8 January 2020

Malaysia

Doctor: RM1Mil Should Fund Quit-Smoking Services, Not Smoking Areas

Will tobacco companies be paying for the designated smoking zones?

7 January 2020

Malaysia

Local Councils Building Smoking Zones, Restaurants Also Allowed

Local councils will eventually mandate restaurant owners to set up designated smoking areas 3 metres away from their premises.

28 March 2019

Malaysia

Selangor Rep Wants Designated Smoking Rooms

Seri Kembangan assemblyman Ean Yong Hian Wah says the public is still confused about the three-metre no-smoking ruling at restaurants.

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Doctors, Cancer Groups Back Health Minister’s Designated Smoking Areas Proposal

Activists Fine With ‘Temporary’ Smoking Zones, But Not Ampang Model

KPKT’s Smoking Area Guidelines: Simple, Makeshift, No Littering

Zuraida Reviewing RM1Mil Allocation For 155 Smoking Zones

Backlash Won’t Stop Zuraida’s Designated Smoking Areas Plan

Designated Areas Unnecessary, Smoke ‘Anywhere Else’, Say Advocates

Eateries Question Cost, Safety Of Outside Smoking Areas

Doctor: RM1Mil Should Fund Quit-Smoking Services, Not Smoking Areas

Local Councils Building Smoking Zones, Restaurants Also Allowed

Selangor Rep Wants Designated Smoking Rooms

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