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Lebanon bans indoor smoking and tobacco advertising

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Lebanon’s Parliament Wednesday endorsed a law banning smoking in all enclosed public places, including restaurants, bars, cafes and offices.

The law was presented for vote with an amendment that would fine owners of businesses if they fail to implement the smoking ban and will also fine individuals who violate the ban.

Under the new law tobacco advertising and promotion will be illegal, including billboards, magazine advertisements and tobacco company sponsorship of events and concerts. The bill also calls for a pictorial warning of the dangers of smoking covering 40 percent of the surface of the pack.

The law also makes smoking on board commercial flights illegal.

Hotels are allowed to set aside 10 to 20 percent of their rooms for smokers.

Lebanon has been obligated to pass tobacco control legislation since it is a signatory to the World Health Organization’s Framework Convention on Tobacco Control, which became effective in 2005.

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20 responses to “Lebanon bans indoor smoking and tobacco advertising”

  1. Mosetsfire Avatar
    Mosetsfire

    I have been waiting for this for so long… FINALLY. 

    1. 5thDrawer Avatar
      5thDrawer

      Yah … smoking may be bad for the lungs (along with many more-noxious substances we pump into the atmosphere) … but there go my nerves again. 🙁
      It hits at ‘life-style’ basically. Education works better than instant ‘bans’.
      Eventually the government will realize how much they can make in taxes on tobacco – as they did in western and other countries – and of course will make the poor who have few pleasures in life even poorer.
        Smuggling and under-the-counter tobacco might become more lucrative than running guns, however. Maybe THAT is positive. 🙂

    2. Kobi Avatar
      Kobi

       Yes, this is the best!!

  2. Mohamad Masri Avatar
    Mohamad Masri

    I have been waiting for this for so long… FINALLY. 

    1. Avatar
      Anonymous

      Yah … smoking may be bad for the lungs (along with many more-noxious substances we pump into the atmosphere) … but there go my nerves again. 🙁
      It hits at ‘life-style’ basically. Education works better than instant ‘bans’.
      Eventually the government will realize how much they can make in taxes on tobacco – as they did in western and other countries – and of course will make the poor who have few pleasures in life even poorer.
        Smuggling and under-the-counter tobacco might become more lucrative than running guns, however. Maybe THAT is positive. 🙂

    2. Kobi Avatar
      Kobi

       Yes, this is the best!!

  3. Adam Yonatan Ben Yoel Avatar
    Adam Yonatan Ben Yoel

    I’m curious to see if it holds in bars in Lebanon. It didn’t over here.

  4. Adam Yonatan Ben Yoel Avatar
    Adam Yonatan Ben Yoel

    I’m curious to see if it holds in bars in Lebanon. It didn’t over here.

  5. FadiAbboud Avatar
    FadiAbboud

    Is there any law that’s respected in Lebanon anyway?
    The Law of Hezbollah is the only law. 

  6. Avatar
    Anonymous

    Is there any law that’s respected in Lebanon anyway?
    The Law of Hezbollah is the only law. 

  7. guss043 Avatar
    guss043

    and who will enforce this law? Hizbollah?or the louzy internal security forces, well maybe they can do that if the bars and restaurant they raid are not run by Hezbollah or other Gangsters ..

  8. guss043 Avatar
    guss043

    and who will enforce this law? Hizbollah?or the louzy internal security forces, well maybe they can do that if the bars and restaurant they raid are not run by Hezbollah or other Gangsters ..

  9. antar2011 Avatar
    antar2011

    i think that HA would not be opposing this law…

  10. Avatar
    Anonymous

    i think that HA would not be opposing this law…

  11. 7akibalash Avatar
    7akibalash

    how dare they? they cant address issues as pertenant as “state within a state” but they can ban smoking in privately owned bars and restaurants, lebanese people by large should disregard the law and insist on the parliament dealing with consolidating all power under the lebanese constitution and government, untill this is done, no other law that comes from those cowards should be respected.

  12. 7akibalash Avatar
    7akibalash

    how dare they? they cant address issues as pertenant as “state within a state” but they can ban smoking in privately owned bars and restaurants, lebanese people by large should disregard the law and insist on the parliament dealing with consolidating all power under the lebanese constitution and government, untill this is done, no other law that comes from those cowards should be respected.

  13. Avatar
    Anonymous

    how dare they? they cant address issues as pertenant as “state within a state” but they can ban smoking in privately owned bars and restaurants, lebanese people by large should disregard the law and insist on the parliament dealing with consolidating all power under the lebanese constitution and government, untill this is done, no other law that comes from those cowards should be respected.

  14. Peter Avatar
    Peter

    I am 100% confident this will stop people from smoking in bars and restaurants in Lebanon.  The Lebanese barely follow traffic laws do you think they’ll give a sh_t about this one?  I applaud them on taking the right step but unfortunately the mentality of the Lebanese people will take generations to change.

  15. Peter Avatar
    Peter

    I am 100% confident this will stop people from smoking in bars and restaurants in Lebanon.  The Lebanese barely follow traffic laws do you think they’ll give a sh_t about this one?  I applaud them on taking the right step but unfortunately the mentality of the Lebanese people will take generations to change.

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