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Smoking ban extended to reservoirs and more than 400 parks

SINGAPORE — From June, smoking will be banned at reservoirs, parks in public housing estate managed by town councils and those under JTC Corporation’s purview, as well as neighbourhood parks in private housing estates under the National Parks Board.

SINGAPORE — From June, smoking will be banned at reservoirs, parks in public housing estate managed by town councils and those under JTC Corporation’s purview, as well as neighbourhood parks in private housing estates under the National Parks Board.

The new locations add to over 32,000 premises and locations in which smoking is prohibited, said the National Environment Agency (NEA), which iterated the Government’s long-term goal to ban smoking in all public areas to ward off the harmful effects of second-hand smoke on non-smokers.

The NEA said it will advise smokers who are caught smoking in the newly prohibited areas, in the first three months of the new regulation coming into effect. This is to give them time to adjust. But those who repeatedly flout the law in spite of warnings may be fined, it said.

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