The government fined at least 10 people for smoking at bus stops on Monday and yesterday since the toughened version of the anti-smoking law took effect on New Year’s Day, according to the Health Bureau (SSM).
The Legislative Assembly (AL) passed the government-initiated Tobacco Prevention and Control Law’s amendment bill during a plenary session in July last year.
The new version of the law bans smoking within a 10-metre-area of all bus stops and taxi ranks.
Passengers get onto a bus at a bus stop where its no-smoking area is indicated by grey lines on the ground, outside Flower City Garden in Taipa yesterday. Photo: Tony Wong
