North Korea prohibits smoking in public areas spaces: State media
05 November, 2020
North Korea's Supreme People's Assembly on Wednesday (Nov 4) introduced smoking bans in a few public places to supply citizens with "hygienic living environments," state media KCNA reported on Thursday.
The tobacco-prohibition law aims to protect the lives and health of North Koreans by tightening the legal and social controls on the production and sale of cigarettes, KCNA quoted the legislature as saying.
The law stipulates that smoking is banned in specific venues, such as for example political and ideological education centers, theatres and cinemas, and medical and public health facilities, KCNA said.
North Korea has high rates of smoking tobacco, with 43.9 percent of the male population smokers by 2013, based on the World Health Organization.
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un is actually a chain smoker who is frequently seen with a cigarette in hand in photographs in state media.
Kim was spotted going for a cigarette break at a railway station in the southern Chinese city of Nanning in 2019 on his way to Hanoi for his second summit with US President Donald Trump.
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