YEAR 10 COMMERCE IN SOCIETY
Outline of the law -
Currently, smoking is illegal in restaurants, shopping centres, workplaces and airports in Victoria. But this may not enough as the public is still at risk of disease outdoors.
Doctors and Quit Victoria team have called to ban smoking from all Melbourne beaches and outdoor areas as a Victorian State Law.
However, Health Minister Bronwyn Pike has made it clear that the government's aim is to ban smoking in all enclosed areas by 2007, and has no intention of beginning a campaign for outdoor areas until then.
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