Jump to full article: East Coast Radio (za), 2009-05-29
Author: (Story by Judith Subban)
Intro: If you're a business owner, you may have already given some thought to how the tough new smoking laws will affect you when they take effect on Monday.�
The National Council Against Smoking Peter Ucko says there will be a number of changes introduced when the revised Tobacco Products Control Act becomes effective.
"Some of the important changes will be the inclusion of the words 'partially enclosed' in the definition of a public place, so no smoking on verandas and things like that, so there'll also be no smoking in certain outdoor areas such as railway platforms, sports stadia and places where people gather in numbers."
Smokers will also no longer be able to smoke in their cars if they're traveling with children under the age of 12, while the legal smoking age has been upped from 16 to 18.�
Graphic picture warnings on all tobacco packaging has also be given the go-ahead.
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