How much progress has been made toward a smoke-free environment in the restaurants and bars of Japan? Limitations of partial bans and their enforcement
Aoi Kataoka, Isao Muraki, Masakazu Nakamura, Yuri Ito · 2024
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Aoi Kataoka, Isao Muraki, Masakazu Nakamura, and Yuri Ito checked how far smoke-free rules have reached in Japan's restaurants and bars, in this 2024 study. A revised health law took full effect in April 2020, but small older venues were exempt and could stay unregulated. How many places actually banned indoor smoking was unclear.
The team surveyed thousands of venues in Tokyo, Osaka, and Aomori before and after the law took hold. Two thirds of all venues still allowed smoking in some form. Worse, most venues the law did cover kept their old smoking setup anyway, against the rules. The authors estimate that full compliance would lift the smoke-free share to about eighty-six percent, and they call for a complete indoor ban.
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| CREATOR | Aoi Kataoka, Isao Muraki, Masakazu Nakamura, Yuri Ito |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2024 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 58 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |