Japan takes steps to become smoke-free indoors
Japan’s ban on smoking inside restaurants and bars takes effect this week: March 30, 2020; https://www.stripes.com/news/japan-s-ban-on-smoking-inside-restaurants-and-bars-takes-effect-this-week-1.624171
This new requirement is part of a revised Health Promotion Law passed in 2018. “It applies to all restaurants and bars across Japan but exempts establishments that sell tobacco, such as cigar bars, and some small bars and restaurants that meet conditions set by the law…. Tokyo will implement a tougher smoking ban at city establishments starting Wednesday, 1 April. The city added conditions to the transitional measure set in the health promotion law, said Tomoyuki Miyakawa, the city’s health promotion division official…. About 84% percent of some 160,000 restaurants and bars in Tokyo should become non-smoking after Wednesday, he said.”
Stephen Hamann
