Government to Impose Fines for Smoking in Public Spaces

The Council of Ministers on Friday passed a sub-decree imposing fines for smoking in offices and other public spaces in a bid to reduce the use of tobacco products and bolster public health.

The new regulation imposes a fine of 20,000 riel (about $5) for those caught smoking in workplaces, restaurants, bars and other public areas, and 50,000 riel (about $12.50) for owners of restaurants or other establishments who do not designate non-smoking areas, according to a statement released by the Council of Ministers on Friday.


Men smoke outside a restaurant on Sisowath Quay in Phnom Penh on Friday. (Siv Channa/The Cambodia Daily)

However, council spokesman Phay Siphan explained that the rules did not amount to a blanket ban on tobacco, but rather an effort to limit its use to prescribed areas, particularly within restaurants and bars. He said the Ministry of Health would work with the owners of eating and drinking establishments to determine where smoking would be allowed.

“I think the Ministry of Health is going to issue a license for the restaurants, the places we consider public use, transportation, or the airport, stuff like that. What we discussed this morning was that restaurants should have two areas: one is a non-smoking area and one is a smoking area,” he explained.

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good

smokers are sad addicted smelly death heads.

Southeast Asia has changed.
They all wanna be like Singapore.

just another means to "solicit" money

Not in our club.
It is private, thus not subject to such left wing nonsense.
Like any decent rooms, we have powerful extractor fans, unlike the dingy dives frequented by hapless remittance men one finds in the squalid commercial milieu of certain notorious streets of Phnom Penh.

nemo wrote:Not in our club. It is private,

aint all bars, pubs, workplaces, restaurants considered private?

They are called "public houses" or Pubs for a reason my good man.
They are open to the public, washed or unwashed.
Black, white, yellow or brindle.
Communist and fascist- none are barred who exhibit goodwill to their fellows.
Without prejudice as it were.

Clubs are an entirely different matter.
The members are the employers so to speak.

I wonder [ in the kingdom of wonder why ] how many people have been caught and fined for urinating in public. I remember this law being passed about the year 2004.
Oh , and then there is the law and fines for throwing litter, and , and, and,

It is not an anatomical reference you dirty little man.