Measures strengthened by the Tokyo Metropolitan Tokyo Metropolitan Passive Smoking Prevention Ordinance September 1 5:31
Based on the Tokyo Metropolitan Ordinance, measures to prevent passive smoking will be strengthened from the first day. In kindergartens and elementary and junior high schools in Tokyo, it is not possible to establish a smoking area even outdoors, and restaurants are required to display information such as whether the shop is non-smoking or where there is a smoking area.
The Tokyo Metropolitan Government has enacted regulations on the prevention of passive smoking for next year's Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics, and has been gradually implementing it since January.
In order to protect children from passive smoking from the first day, nursery schools, kindergartens, elementary and junior high schools, and high schools will not be able to install smoking areas, including outdoors, and it is required to completely quit the site. It has been.
Under the laws of the country, it is possible to establish a smoking area outside the grounds of a nursery school or school, so the ordinances of the city are more stringent than the country.
In addition, restaurants in Tokyo are required to display whether the store is non-smoking or where there is a smoking place from the first day, and it is necessary to post signs such as seals at easy-to-see locations at the entrance of the store .
The regulations on the prevention of passive smoking in the city will be further tightened on April 1 next year before the Tokyo Games.
Regardless of size, restaurants that employ employees are obliged to quit indoors as a general rule and punishment provisions will be established, so the city will continue to encourage restaurants to take measures. .