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Originally Posted by Cinisajoy
Curious about your anti-smoking laws.
Here most restaurants are non-smoking. One is smoking but it is attached to a bar.
All public buildings are non-smoking.
For good or bad, the casinos in the state beside us and the state above us are smoking.
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Cigarette packets cannot be on display in stores, must be in a plain closed door cabinets, no self serve or vending machines. Packets look like
this - warning not pleasant sight. Big Tobacco fought very hard to overturn the law that bought that about. I suspect they were intending to try using TTIP to overturn the decisions of our High court, HK court, Ecuador court, WTO court etc upholding the laws, but that got Trumpled on
No smoking in
any workplace, or any transport including taxis (Uber ??), there is a proposal to outlaw smoking in your car if you have any minors on board. No smoking at bus stops, train station or ferry wharves - no smoking in some public parks.
No smoking inside pubs or clubs, including the gambling rooms, if they have outdoor seating you can smoke there. Not sure about the casinos, never been in one, and my neighbour, who works in one, is not allowed in the gambling areas so she doesn't know either
I would imagine patrons of the high roller dens can smoke.
Most of our state governments are addicted to gambling revenues, particularly the one I'm sitting in.
And lastly taxes - by 2020 a packet of 20 cigarettes will cost at least $40.
I can envisage a day when some publicly funded health care (heart surgery, cancer treatment etc) will only be available to non-smokers. Some surgery is already rationed informally on the whim of the surgeons.
BR