HK lifts smoking ban exemption for bars, baths, and mahjong joints

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Updated June 30, 2009 20:50:14

For the last two-and-a-half years, bars, clubs, bathhouses, massage parlours, and mahjong joints in Hong Kong have been exempt from a ban on smoking in public places, but that changes on Wednesday when Hong Kong's department of health lifts the exemption. Hong Kong's Tobacco Control Office says more than 88 per cent of people living in the special administrative region do not smoke, and most people are in favour of the public smoking ban. But the business community says it will hit them - where the global recession has already hit them hard.

Presenter: Zulfikar Abbany
Speaker: Dr Ronald Lam, director, Tobacco Control Office, Hong Kong

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