Anti-smoking inspectors fined 4,131 people for illegally puffing away in the first nine months of the year, with the category of illegally smoking in casinos topping the list, the Health Bureau (SSM) said in a statement yesterday.
The new version of the Tobacco Prevention and Control Law, which took effect on January 1 this year, bans smoking within a 10-metre-area of all bus stops.
The no-smoking area at bus stops is currently indicated by grey lines painted on the ground. The Health Bureau said in January this year that the government would change the colour of the lines from grey to white, in response to complaints that the grey lines were difficult to see so that smokers might violate the new law inadvertently. However, the announced change in colour has still to materialise.
