Six types of public institutions also prohibit smoking outside.
The "Regulations" clarify that smoking refers to the act of inhaling and exhaling tobacco smoke or e-cigarette smoke, as well as holding lighted tobacco products. Smoking is prohibited in indoor public places, indoor workplaces and public transport.
In addition, smoking is also prohibited in outdoor areas of some public places, including pre-school education institutions such as nurseries and kindergartens, primary and secondary schools, children's welfare homes and other places where minors are the main activity groups; Maternal and child health care institutions, children's hospitals; Cultural relics protection units open to the society; Sports fitness venues, outdoor performance audience areas, performing arts and competition areas; People's governments at all levels hold large-scale activities and temporarily set up non-smoking areas and other non-smoking places as stipulated by laws and regulations. Smoking rooms or designated smoking areas shall not be set up in places where smoking is prohibited.
The "Regulations" clarify that under the leadership of the government at the same level, the administrative department of health will take the lead in organizing, guiding and coordinating tobacco control and organizing publicity and education activities.
"12345" accepts tobacco control consultation and complaints in a unified way.
For sellers of tobacco products, the regulations clearly require that warning signs that smoking is harmful to health and it is forbidden to sell tobacco products to minors should be set up in a prominent position in the sales place.
In addition, sellers of tobacco products are prohibited from selling tobacco products to minors; Selling tobacco products in primary and secondary schools, children's palaces and their surrounding areas 100 meters; Illegally selling tobacco products through vending machines or information networks such as mobile communication and the Internet.
It is worth noting that the "Regulations" stipulate that the so-called tobacco products refer to products that are completely or partially produced from tobacco for smoking, smoking, chewing or nasal inhalation. In other words, e-cigarettes have also been included in the smoking ban.
Citizens have the right to ask smokers to stop smoking if they are found smoking in no-smoking places; Smokers who refuse to listen to dissuasion or managers and operators who fail to perform dissuasion duties have the right to report and complain. "12345" citizen service hotline accepts tobacco control consultation and complaints in a unified way.
The maximum fine for smoking in non-smoking places is 200 yuan
The exposure draft clarifies the legal responsibility for violating the regulations. Individuals who, in violation of regulations, smoke in places where smoking is prohibited shall be ordered by the relevant regulatory law enforcement departments to make corrections and may be fined fifty yuan; Those who refuse to make corrections shall be fined in 200 yuan.
If the seller of tobacco products sells tobacco products in primary and secondary schools, children's palaces and their surrounding areas 100 meters, the relevant regulatory authorities shall order it to make corrections, give it a warning and impose a fine of more than 5,000 yuan in 500 yuan. Managers and operators of places that fail to fulfill the responsibility of tobacco control shall be ordered by the relevant regulatory law enforcement departments to make corrections and be fined more than 2,000 yuan 1 10,000 yuan; Refuses to correct, punishable by a fine of ten thousand yuan and thirty thousand yuan.
Units that set up smoking rooms or designate smoking areas in no-smoking places, fail to designate no-smoking areas according to law, or fail to stop illegal smoking and persuade relevant uncivilized behaviors shall be ordered by relevant regulatory law enforcement departments to make corrections, given a warning, and fined more than 2,000 yuan 1 10,000 yuan; Refuses to correct, punishable by a fine of ten thousand yuan and thirty thousand yuan.