School association and member of city’s largest party suggest banning vaping devices and ‘smoking while walking’ after tobacco control bill passed
A school association and a member of Hong Kong’s largest political party have urged the government to go further in its anti-smoking measures, including by banning vaping devices and outlawing “smoking while walking”, after lawmakers passed a controversial tobacco control bill.
Their comments came on Friday, a day after the Tobacco Control Legislation (Amendment) Bill was passed by lawmakers following its second and third readings, as the government sought to further lower Hong Kong’s smoking rate, currently at 9.1 per cent.
The bill covered eight of 10 tobacco control measures proposed by the government in June last year, including prohibiting the possession or use of alternative smoking products in public by April 30 of next year, and banning the sale of flavoured conventional products – other than menthol – from the second quarter of 2027.
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