According to China.com.cn, Beijing will pass a new law in 2010 that will completely ban smoking indoors.
Cui Xiaobo, the deputy secretary-general of the Beijing Association on Smoking and Health, said that the new law, which is expected to be passed at the annual meeting of the standing committee of Beijing Municipal People's Congress in 2010, states that smoking shall be banned from all indoor venues, with the exception of private homes. This means that the smoking areas or smoking sections currently seen in hotels and office buildings will be totally eliminated.
According to the new regulation, individuals who violate the rule will be fined CNY50 to CNY200 and companies that disobey the rule will be fined up to CNY10,000.
It is understood that the new rule will be formally enacted in the second half of 2010.
