AAP
February 21, 2012
SMOKING in outdoor dining areas will be banned in NSW from 2015 and at playgrounds, sports grounds and swimming pools as soon as possible.
Announcing the tobacco reforms, Health Minister Jillian Skinner said they were the next step in winding back smoking across the state.
Ms Skinner says legislation will soon be introduced into parliament to immediately ban smoking in playgrounds, public sports grounds, swimming pools, transport stops such as taxi ranks and entrances to public buildings.
“The aim of this is to reduce the number of people who are smoking, and to reduce the exposure to people, particularly children and families, of third-party tobacco smoke,” she told reporters in Sydney.
“So we’ve introduced a series of places where children and families congregate more frequently, which is why we’ve got parks, playgrounds, sporting fields and so on, and commercial outdoor dining areas.”
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