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• Smoking ban 'among world's most comprehensive'  

If passed unchanged, the Tobacco Bill would impose one of the world's toughest anti-smoking regimes, a Cayman Observer survey has found

If passed unchanged, the Tobacco Bill would impose one of the world's toughest anti-smoking regimes, a Cayman Observer survey has found.

A survey of tobacco laws elsewhere reveals legislative efforts of varying strictness, but none with the combined, comprehensive restrictions of the Cayman Islands bill.

Even though the Tobacco Bill is based on a World Health Organisation template drafted in 2003, only a relative handful of specific places around the world have attempted an outdoor ban similar in scope to Cayman's proposed prohibition in parks and on beaches as well as in enclosed public places.

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