Smoking was banned in all enclosed restaurants, cafes and dining areas of hotels, licensed clubs and shopping centres in Victoria from under the Tobacco Act Vic. An exemption applied to licensed premises until 1 July when smoking was completely banned in enclosed licensed premises. At the same time, smoking was banned in outdoor dining or drinking areas with a roof and walls in place that are more than 75 per cent enclosed.
Smoking is banned in enclosed workplaces in Victoria. An 'enclosed' workplace under the Victorian legislation means an area, room or premise that is substantially enclosed by a roof and walls, regardless of whether the roof or walls or any part of them are a permanent or temporary or b open or closed.
This means workplaces with large roller doors, even if they are open, are required to be smokefree. Outdoor dining and drinking areas are treated differently from enclosed workplaces. Smoking is permitted in outdoor dining or drinking areas in Victoria unless the area has a roof and walls in place, and the total surface area of the walls is more than 75 per cent of the total notional wall area. An outdoor dining or drinking area includes a balcony, verandah, courtyard, rooftop, marquee, street, footpath or any similar outdoor area.
For example, if the walls of a marquee are retracted smoking may be permitted, whereas if they are closed smoking may be banned. These new laws apply across Victoria from 1 August Under the new laws, if any part of an outdoor drinking area is within 4 metres of an outdoor dining area, the outdoor drinking area and the outdoor dining area must be separated by a wall that is at least 2.
This is the case regardless of whether the outdoor drinking area and outdoor dining area are operated by the same occupier. The new laws also ban smoking at certain food fairs such as the Night Noodle Market and Queen Victoria Night Market and at certain organised outdoor events. Smoking was banned in cars carrying persons under 18 years of age in Victoria from 1 January A number of Victorian local councils have banned smoking in outdoor areas not covered by state legislation.
From October Monash City Council extended its ban on smoking at playgrounds to include within 10 metres of the entrance to buildings on designated council land including schools, sporting grounds, council offices and community centres and at designated council events. Occupational health and safety regulations introduced in July restricted smoking in enclosed workplaces in Western Australia, but did not specifically apply to patrons attending hospitality venues.
In smoking in enclosed public places such as theatres, shopping centres and cinemas was banned under the Health Smoking in Enclosed Public Places Regulations WA. There are minimal exceptions to the law, which include:. Amendments to the Tobacco Products Control Act that came into effect on 22 September banned smoking between the flags at patrolled beaches; at outdoor eating areas other than designated smoking zones at licensed premises ; within 10 metres of children's playground equipment; and in vehicles when a person under the age of 17 years is present.
An 'enclosed public place' is defined as a public place that has a ceiling or roof and that is more than 50 per cent enclosed by walls or other vertical structures or coverings. The surface area of any vertical structures located at or within 1 m from the perimeter of the ceiling or roof must also be included in the calculation. If a public place does not have a roof then it is not considered to be enclosed. Unless an enclosed public place has adequate ventilation, the occupier must take reasonable steps to ensure that smoke from a tobacco product does not enter the enclosed place.
From 18 March , smoking is not permitted within 5 metres of a public entrance to an enclosed public place, or within 10 metres of an air intake for air conditioning equipment that is in or on an enclosed public place. From 22 September , smoking was banned in outdoor eating areas in Western Australia, other than in 'smoking zones' in licensed premises. Smoking in a vehicle while a person under 17 years of age is present was banned in Western Australia from 22 September Table Business premises indoors i.
Multi-unit complexes, private units incl owners corporation power to ban smoking or smokedrift. Pedestrian malls, footpaths identified by council and declared under smokefree legislation. Schools, indoors lxvi. Theatres except smoking by performers during performance , cinemas lxix. The original legislation may have since been replaced or amended. Where none is shown, smoking may still be prohibited in some places by a mandatory policy or Council by-law.
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Share via:. Media Center ACC. They are the ones that have suffered. And there's a wider picture. People in the UK seem to be drinking less. The numbers drinking on five days or more a week nearly halved over that time.
Smoking rates are falling. But as the graph below shows the downward trend goes back decades - and there was actually a slowing of the rate of decline immediately after the ban. Most experts agree that is understandable.
As the numbers fall, what you are left with is a more hardcore group of smokers whom it is hard to persuade to give up. But how much of the fall is down to the ban - and how much is down to other factors? There are fewer young people taking up smoking. The numbers have halved since the introduction of the ban.
But again it is difficult to work out quite how much of that is down to the legislation. When you look at drinking rates, drug use or teenage pregnancy numbers, they tell a similar story. There is a clear pattern - the young have changed the way they behave.
This consistent trend has not yet been properly explained. One of the few convincing theories centres on social media - the idea is that young people spend so much of their time online that it has replaced other vices. The ban also encouraged some existing smokers to give up. Research suggests the ban was particularly effective at raising awareness about the risks of second-hand smoke - people were motivated to protect those they smoked around, as well as looking after their own health.
The YouGov poll also provides some evidence. But you can't ignore the influence of e-cigarettes either. Vaping has offered a healthier, more socially acceptable alternative to smoking. Momentum was just gathering in , but figures from the Office for National Statistics show that today one in 20 people over 16 regularly uses e-cigarettes - a quarter of them are smokers or ex-smokers.
England still has a relatively large number of women who smoke during pregnancy - one in 10 at last count , although the figures are admittedly falling. Policymakers have been so worried about these numbers that they have tried offering financial incentives, such as shopping vouchers, to pregnant women who quit.
There also remains a large discrepancy in the income levels between who smokes and who doesn't. Those with the lowest incomes are twice as likely to smoke as people who come from the highest income groups - a gap that refuses to budge even as smoking rates fall.
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