神奈川県 禁煙
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Tue 2008/04/22 18:55
「県が発表した「基本的考え方」は、公共的施設を「不特定多数の人が利用する施設で、室内またはこれに準ずる環境にあるもの」と定義しており、▽飲食店▽娯楽施設▽学校▽病院▽百貨店▽宿泊施設－－など１６種を列記している。施設内で喫煙した人や、禁煙の徹底を求める県の命令に従わない施設には罰金を科す。ただ、事務所や共同住宅、施設内の休憩室や倉庫などは適用除外とした。
禁煙条例は同県の松沢成文知事ががん対策として、昨年４月の知事選のマニフェストに盛り込んだ。松沢知事は１５日の会見で「たばこを吸わない人を守る条例なので、室内に受動喫煙がない環境を作らなければならない」と述べた。だが、小規模店などから禁煙化による売り上げ減を心配する声も上がっており、知事は「小さい店はなかなかできないので、広さによる適用の除外も今後の課題」と含みも持たせた。
０３年５月に受動喫煙防止を定めた健康増進法が施行され、路上喫煙禁止条例の制定が全国の市区町村で進んでるが、施設内の全面禁煙を定めた条例はない。一方、英国やイタリアなど欧州では一般的で、今年１月にフランスで導入され、カフェの利用客らに賛否両論が起きている。」(%%http://mainichi.jp/select/today/news/20080416k0000m010122000c.html,毎日引用)
個人的にはいい知らせです。自分は喘息しているのでタバコの煙に包まれると息が苦しくなる。数ヶ月済んでいたシアトルのレストランは全面禁煙だったので楽でした。
写真は免許証だ。Taspoが普及せず、免許証でもOKと自動販売機に免許証読み取り機がこれから取り付けられることになるらしい Via Tokyo NP。
This is nice, I hope Tokyo area restaurants can do something similar where they ban smoking inside the restaurants. I don't know it's just me, but it seems like Japanese people are really inconsiderate about second-hand smoking for some reason :/
(ID #173843) Posted on 2008/04/22 19:03
I think it's a good idea. Unless smokers don't care about the health of us non-smokers, O_o .
(ID #173847) Posted on 2008/04/22 19:14
Lasersword operator
hey^^ i take care of it^^
(ID #173970) Posted on 2008/04/22 23:25
A similar ban was put into effect in the US in the state in live in.(Ohio) It was passed about a year or 2 ago. It bans smoking in all public locations. This even includes bars and clubs i believe. I must say i disagree with the ban carrying over into bars. I understand places like restaurants and stores, but people who drink often smoke.I am sure it hurts the bar owners. I'm a smoker myself, and it only bothered me that i couldn't smoke in the Hero House anymore.(a great lil eatery in Wooster with the best subs around!) Overall i believe it was for the best.
(ID #173850) Posted on 2008/04/22 19:27
It's the same here in NY. I don't like the bar ban but agree with the restaurant ban. It sucks more when it's snowing and stuff.
(ID #174113) Posted on 2008/04/23 06:55
I love the smoking ban in NY. All my smoker friends have already gotten used to it, and the thick fog of smoke that used to be so common in NYC bars are now gone. I feel that a non-smoker cannot harm a smoker, as the smoker can just go outside to have a puff. However, a smoker can harm a non-smoker, where is the non-smoker supposed to go (if all of the non-smoker's friends are smokers)?
(ID #185700) Posted on 2008/05/12 01:49
It's a very good idea and luckily Toronto enforced those laws couple years back. I too have asthma and have difficulty breathing, but aside from that I've lost family due to just by chance that in the olden days they didn't have these laws and in the places they worked, people smoked.
(ID #173851) Posted on 2008/04/22 19:28
Where I'm at they already ban smoking in most public establishments. Even clubs and bars. Most people seem to like the idea, and as a non-smoker myself I can't disagree.
(ID #173852) Posted on 2008/04/22 19:28
Raven, AMV & MAD maker, Otaku
i remember my time in shibuya. when my friends and i were hungry and there was mcdonalds. the burger was indeed good but on the second floor, it was totally smoking like oh my god @_@ i just hope i dont go to a restraunt or fast food area like that
(ID #173853) Posted on 2008/04/22 19:29
Whoa - your profile thing says you are 'in' Danny Choo...! o.O
(ID #174099) Posted on 2008/04/23 05:34
Raven, AMV & MAD maker, Otaku
lol sorry i will be changing that. i just put it there because i am in the DANNYCHOO site ^^;; if i was in japan i would have put XboxLive in the location as well because i am out of gold membership cards T-T. i cant order them because i have no credit card and i cant buy them because they dont sell prepaid cards in the area i live T-T
(ID #174341) Posted on 2008/04/23 17:28
Photographer/Night Auditor
That's good that they are trying that smoking ban. Here there is some opposition to it and so while the majority of public places are smoke free bars and more adult oriented places are allowed to choose whether or not they will be smoke free. That's the last hold out though. I think what annoys smokers the most are the entirely smoke free hotels. I get so many complaints from smokers that there isn't any where aside from a couple run down dive hotels where they are still allowed to smoke in their rooms.
(ID #173854) Posted on 2008/04/22 19:29
Illustrator & Designer
I totally agree with banning smoking in public areas such as restaurants, bars, parks, and shopping centres, etc. Here in Australia, it's pretty much all in place. They've even been hinting at banning people from smoking in their own cars! I don't know how one could govern/police that though.
(ID #173855) Posted on 2008/04/22 19:30
ColdFusion Developer
Smoking has been banned in restaurants just before the Sydney Olympics, which was a pretty good move and it has been enforced ever since. It has definitely done wonders but I'm not all that fussed about smokers in general, but I do love to eat when there is no smoke in the air to ruin my food.
(ID #173856) Posted on 2008/04/22 19:30
ひきこもり/Hikikomori. Suits my current state more than a 大学生/University Student. ^^
Not a smoker so naturally, this is also good news for me.
(ID #173864) Posted on 2008/04/22 19:48
Congrats to your area their in a bustling city. Kinda glad, that they made a smart decision to change rules over there. I understand how tough it is with asthma, I'm also a sufferer. But hey it could lead to a better living area. So its definitely a positive, even though in a busy place 24/7.
(ID #173865) Posted on 2008/04/22 19:49
All the restaurants, bars, etc. are smoking-free areas here. And the situation is getting better all the time. And of course you can't smoke in a hospital. Hospital workers can't smoke during their workdays at all.
(ID #173871) Posted on 2008/04/22 20:06
Director/代表取締役
Nice Avatar ^^; Oppai.
(ID #173968) Posted on 2008/04/22 23:21
Danny, I bet you'll Love Australia if you come for a visit, because lots of places here now are no smoking. You can't smoke in the rest, pub, cinema, almost everywhere except outside I guess.
(ID #173872) Posted on 2008/04/22 20:15
Medical Research and Design
In Canada it's universally non smoking in all commercial and public places with the exception of general city streets, so teracces and restaurants are totally smoke free here. Much to my liking as well. I'm just about the same as you in that department, cigarette smoke aggravates my lungs pretty bad.
(ID #173874) Posted on 2008/04/22 20:25
Good news ^^ Smoking has been banned in every public place in France since january 1st 2008, and its much more pleasant to go to restaurant for example. There were already non-smoking areas though. The "funny" thing now, is when who go to night clubs, it no more smells smoke, but it stinks sweat (which was before hidden by smoke) :s Hard to tell which is the "best"... haha
(ID #173876) Posted on 2008/04/22 20:30
Director/代表取締役
LOL at sweat smell ^^;
(ID #173965) Posted on 2008/04/22 23:20
True, true. Id rather have sweaty smells though. With smoke, your eyes sting, you have trouble breathing, its horrible on a crapmed dancefloor and your clothes reek of cigarettes for days afterwards.
(ID #174102) Posted on 2008/04/23 05:36
It's already forbidden to smoke in resturants and some bars here in Sweden, which is a good thing. Let's hope that they do this smoking ban in Tokyo too, everyone will feel better and be happy. ^^-b
(ID #173878) Posted on 2008/04/22 20:33
McMaster Engineering Student Fall 08
Hahaha speaking of a smoker, I have a friend who's really into heavy smoking. On a daily basis, he smokes about 25 smokes. Funny guy though, I hung out with him on the weekend at a BBQ. He also drank 14 beers that day. What a guy :D But ya, I'm one for banning smoking. I mean, for one, I don't want to get cancer indirectly. But more importantly, if it helps cut back on the number of smokes the average person takes, then its all the better. The world would be a better place without the smoking industry.
(ID #173879) Posted on 2008/04/22 20:34
I don't smoke so I think it's a great idea, already seen smokers using a little room outside yokohama station but it looks silly having one or two of those with the loads of people walking around. About Taspo, sure it was getting personal info but what about the vending machines, a little too paranoid to think that they would read and store all your info instead of just be checking your age? Wouldn't surprise me if most of the vending machine users were minors so now they have it easier to get ciggies.
(ID #173880) Posted on 2008/04/22 20:34
Here in Oregon, you can't smoke in any public places. Even at my work, they are having to move the smoking section 20 yards from the nearest entrance of the building. I'm not a smoker, but have friends who are, and they're not to happy about all the bans. Guess they should just quit.
(ID #173886) Posted on 2008/04/22 20:39
Im all for this, as i dont smoke. Smoking in pubs doesnt particularly bother me, but smoking in resturants and clubs does! Then again, im guessing loads more people smoke in japan than the UK, so its gonna piss a lot of people off...
(ID #173890) Posted on 2008/04/22 20:45
My city has been smoke free in public places for quite some time. The bar owners were worried it would effect business, but statistics have shown business has generally improved slightly, probably because there aren't smokers smoking and driving away the no smokers, who are way more numerous here.
(ID #173906) Posted on 2008/04/22 21:26
I HATE smoking. Hate the smell, hate the taste from second hand smoking, hate the headaches I get, hate the nosebleed from my body reacting to it, hate the posers who smoke it to look cool or fooling themselves into thinking it actually can calm you down physically. HATE smoking.
(ID #173907) Posted on 2008/04/22 21:32
I nearly quit early 2008 after smoking for 6 years, then had a few too many drinks one night with some friends. :( An got back on it). Its such a horrible habbit an i stink, i will quit as i know i can!
(ID #173911) Posted on 2008/04/22 21:38
Director/代表取締役
you can do it! think of all the figures you can buy instead. How much are cigs in the UK anyway? They are dead cheap here... I hear Japanese friends complaining about the price of cigs when they go to the UK.
(ID #173964) Posted on 2008/04/22 23:19
Cigs in the UK are too much. Your totally right Danny. Im thinking of all the money i could have saved an its crazy, i could have been to Japan about twice already! Time to try again i think!
(ID #173986) Posted on 2008/04/23 00:07
Director/代表取締役
Use the force.
(ID #174171) Posted on 2008/04/23 10:09
Never too late.
(ID #174183) Posted on 2008/04/23 10:28
Director/代表取締役
To stop, look, listen to your heart hear what its sayin..
(ID #174347) Posted on 2008/04/23 17:56
Countless people miss that nowadays (including myself, even if I try hard to see beauty in little things) and modern societies really don't help in that sense.
(ID #174402) Posted on 2008/04/23 20:10
its all about willpower my friend...quitting is easy if you set your mind to it. The withdrawal will be like hell but trust me, its worth it, this is coming from a former smoker of 8 years.
(ID #174226) Posted on 2008/04/23 11:56
I've been a smoker for about 20 years, until about one month ago. Finally stopped and I'll say a similar public smoking ban in the UK has played a huge part in that. Still tempted now and then, but I think I'm winning ^.^ @cease, good luck mate you can do it!
(ID #173917) Posted on 2008/04/22 22:03
@Burnsy-Zero thanks for the support!
(ID #173989) Posted on 2008/04/23 00:10
i dont like smoking and what i hate about smokers is that they just throw smoke at other people which is disgusting.and as you know from Darker than Black Anime how harmful is Second hand smoke :D here where i live there are non smoking places in almost every restaurant some don't even allow smoking at all :) best of luck to you danny hopefully the law will implement.
(ID #173919) Posted on 2008/04/22 22:09
[off topic] danny u look so round on that card. ^^ [/off topic]
(ID #173922) Posted on 2008/04/22 22:15
Director/代表取締役
LOL
(ID #173963) Posted on 2008/04/22 23:18
If the ban extents to the whole country I predict riots all across Japan.
(ID #173923) Posted on 2008/04/22 22:15
wholeheartedly agreed. I wonder how the yankis and the Yakuza will handle this
(ID #174227) Posted on 2008/04/23 11:57
the only good thing that they did here in Italy was a law that says you cannot smoke in premises' (or you have to pay a fine around 250 euro (40.000yen))
(ID #173926) Posted on 2008/04/22 22:29
Student and full-time otaku
Very good, smoking is an unnecessary and unhealthy habit anyway imo. Many public areas already have smoking bans here, and I believe this summer this will be extended to bars and restaurants too.
(ID #173938) Posted on 2008/04/22 22:41
full time student, 60% of the time.
The smoking ban in Ireland worked out really well, people cant smoke anywhere where people work, so no restaurant smoking, no smoking in bars or offices, people can basically only smoke outside.
(ID #173948) Posted on 2008/04/22 22:50
There's a downside though, I was walking down Chinatown last week and the streets were filled with people smoking outside each corresponding restaurant they were dinning at... I mean seriously, it's like that everywhere! Every pub will have its half a dozen smokers outside filling up the pavements, very annoying.
(ID #173950) Posted on 2008/04/22 22:53
the ban's good, people need to be more considerate to the people around them since second hand smoking is more harmful than first hand smoking.
(ID #173958) Posted on 2008/04/22 23:02
Part human, part student, 100% loser
Save Earth, stop smoking! LOL
(ID #173959) Posted on 2008/04/22 23:05
That reminds me of when my brother and I went to Kyoto, and in the evening, we went to a really nice restaurant in the station, and it had a smoking, and non-smoking area. Now both of us hate smoke, but there was a long queue to get into the non-smoking area, so we figured, the smoking area can't be that bad, so we opted to go into there. Little did we realise, on going int, they close to door behind you, so its like your in a death box...Needless to say, we moved back into the non-smoking area ^_^
(ID #173962) Posted on 2008/04/22 23:15
That's spectacular. I can't wait to go back to a smoke free Japan. I've lived in 2 states in the U.S. with smoking bans and it is so nice to be able to to eat or go out to a bar without having to shower off the smoke stink when I return home. Bravo Kanagawa!
(ID #173969) Posted on 2008/04/22 23:23
Here in Illinois the smoking ban in public places just took effect this January. It's weird to go to bars and restaurants now and not come out smelling like an ash tray. I like it though, as I do not smoke.
(ID #173972) Posted on 2008/04/22 23:30
Warehouse... I wonder with the lack of place to smoke, will they smoke in a warehouse that is stored with flammable items... That would be classic. I once experience once sickening moment. I was doing stock take in an oil refinery. Everything was except that the person who is guiding us is smoking on top of the oil tank. On his left hand is the measurement tape, on the right is his cigarette. I was at the railing... too afraid to move. He was like why are you so far, you can't see the measurement. I was like omg, oh well, if the dude's cigarette mistakenly drop into the taken, I will also be a gonna since I am on top of the tank anyway. Stock was accurate however I reported his negligent lol. You don't smoke on top of the oil tank while conducting stock take!!!!
(ID #173977) Posted on 2008/04/22 23:45
goner not gonna... It was a frightening experience!
(ID #173978) Posted on 2008/04/22 23:46
we have similar smoking ban here but not as wide spread as that (afaik)
(ID #173980) Posted on 2008/04/22 23:49
I think this is a good thing. Smoking is banned in all restaurant here in Boston; if you want to smoke, go outside. My school started last fall also ban smoking in all campus area; well not sure where people smoke now tho. Quit smoking is hard but three of my friends did quit it.
(ID #173991) Posted on 2008/04/23 00:23
I'm glad something like this is being put into effect, because I've never smoked in my life and don't intend to start. I grew up around it, and thought it was the nastiest thing you could do to your body which lead me to be substance free. I would really like to see the tobacco industry crumble.
(ID #174006) Posted on 2008/04/23 01:02
One more step towards banning smoking, period. I hate seeing people I care about struggle with addiction, and I have a friend whose father died of lung cancer when he was just a kid. We have a public smoking ban here too and I love it, but the only problem is you sometimes end up with crowds of smokers hanging out right outside the doors so even though it's outside it's crowded enough to fill the air with smoke, in the one area you have to pass through to get inside. On one day when apparently the weather was right and the smokers all decided to come out at once the entire quad at my schools campus was filled with smoke in spite of being our little slice of outdoors park area. :(
(ID #174011) Posted on 2008/04/23 01:09