
All indoor areas open to the public in a supermarket, bank, department store or shopping mall were designated as no smoking areas. The Airport Authority may designate any area of the passenger terminal complex of the Airport as no smoking area. All restaurants, schools, post-secondary colleges, industrial training centres could designate any area of the premieres as no smoking area.
Packets of tobacco products and retail containers shall bear six pictorial health warnings by rotation, tar and nicotine yields in the prescribed form and manner. The pictorial health warnings shall be of a size that covers at least 50% of the surface area of the packet or retail container.
Complete smoking ban extended to six types of establishment with effect from 1 July 2009 including bars, clubs, nightclubs, bathhouses, massage establishment and mahjong and tin-kau premises. Also, 48 public transport facilities with superstructures were designated as no smoking areas.
The amendment was passed by the Legislative Council to enlarge the size of pictorial health warnings from 50% to 85% of the cigarette pack area, increase the number of forms of health warning from six to twelve and add the quitline. The measure will come into full operation from 21 June 2018.