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Taipei is moving to become a “smoke-free city” so that non-smokers don’t have to contend with the smells or smoke of tobacco. The city is planning an infrastructure upgrade in bustling shopping districts of Ximending and Zhongshan. The city is taking a page out of Japan’s book to install smoking rooms where the smoke and smell remain contained. But since smoking indoors is banned everywhere in Taiwan, there have been some doubts about the feasibility of such rooms. The Minister of Health and Welfare, Shih Chung-liang says that it should be OK. Let’s hear more.

Member of public
In Ximending
I personally don’t like the smell of cigarette smoke. It makes me uncomfortable. I really hate the smell.

Member of public
In Ximending
I don’t like the smell, it stinks. But I wouldn’t try to stop them, they might hit me.

Member of public
In Ximending
It might end up like Japan, where smokers can only smoke at designated areas.

Chiang Wan-an
Taipei Mayor
The next phase focuses on crowded areas such as the Zhongshan and Ximending shopping districts, where we’re planning to install designated smoking rooms with negative pressure. Step by step, we walk closer to becoming a smoke-free city.

Shih Chung-liang
Minister of Health and Welfare
If Taipei is aiming to ban smoking at some pedestrian areas, designate smoking areas and set up smoking rooms, I think that would be legally feasible. The city announced it was aiming to become smoke-free and designating specific outdoor smoking areas. That’s feasible, legally.

The city is planning to install indoor smoking areas similar to those found in Japan. The Health Promotion Administration says the indoor smoking areas should be sound, as long as they are maintained and managed properly, and implement all the necessary waste disposal and fire prevention measures.

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