Tokyo Considering Stricter Smoking Ban Ahead of Olympics
The governor of Tokyo indicated that the Japanese capital will consider banning smoking in all “public facilities” ahead of the 2020 Summer Olympics. The news comes only days after McDonald’s announced that it would ban smoking at all of its Japanese locations, a move that affected some 300 restaurants out of the company’s more than 3,000 locations in the country.
“Japan is the only advanced nation where smoking is permitted at restaurants. We’d like to pass an ordinance (for a smoking ban) with the cooperation of the metropolitan assembly,” said Governor Yōichi Masuzoe on a television program according to a report from The Japan Times.
Tokyo is the most populous metropolitan area in the world with a population of nearly 37 million in the greater Tokyo area.
Charlie Minato
I am an editor and co-founder of halfwheel.com/Rueda Media, LLC. I previously co-founded and published TheCigarFeed, one of the two predecessors of halfwheel. I have written about the cigar industry for more than a decade, covering everything from product launches to regulation to M&A. In addition, I handle a lot of the behind-the-scenes stuff here at halfwheel. I enjoy playing tennis, watching boxing, falling asleep to the Le Mans 24, wearing sweatshirts year-round and eating gyros. echte liebe.
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