No smoking near building entrances
Health Minister Dr Aaron Motsoaledi recently issued regulations that will prohibit smokers from gathering outside buildings.
“These new regulations will restrict the smoking of tobacco outside of buildings,” Motsoaledi announced at a recent meeting of the World Health Organisation on non-communicable diseases.
Motsoaledi said smokers gathering outside buildings in which the use of tobacco was prohibited had become a familiar sight.
“People entering or exiting these building have, up to now, been subject to walking through a haze of smoke to the detriment of our health,” he said.
“This is unacceptable and these new regulations will prohibit this practice.”
The Regulations on Smoking in Public Places and Certain Outdoor Public Places have gazetted for final publication and will set down further conditions for smokers such as the distances from other people that they may smoke in public places.
Source: SAPA
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No smoking near building entrances
by Health-e News, Health-e News
May 14, 2013