Tobacco Hazards Prevention Act Article 18

Smoking is completely prohibited in the following places:(1) schools of all levels, kindergartens, childcare centers, family childcare service facilities, and other places mainly intended for education or activities of children and youth;(2) indoor areas of libraries, museums, art galleries, and other places where the culture or social education institutions are located;(3) medical institutions, nursing institutions, other medical care institutions, and social welfare organizations, with the exception of outdoor areas and separate indoor smoking partitions equipped with independent air-conditioning systems and separate compartments of the welfare institutions for the elderly;(4) indoor areas of government agencies and state-owned enterprises;(5) public transportation vehicles, taxis, tour buses, stations, and passenger rooms;(6) places for the manufacturing, storage or sale of flammable and explosive items;(7) the business premises of banks, post offices, and offices of telecommunication businesses;(8) places for indoor sports, exercises, or body-building;(9) classrooms, reading rooms, laboratories, performance halls, auditoriums, exhibition rooms, conference halls (rooms), and inside elevator cars;(10) indoor areas of opera houses, cinemas, audio-visual businesses, computer entertainment businesses, or other recreational sites open to the general public;(11) indoor areas of hotels, shopping malls, restaurants, bars, nightclubs, or other places for public consumption, with the exceptions of those locations with independent air-conditioning systems and separate compartment for indoor smoking rooms or cigar clubs;(12) indoor workplaces jointly used by three or more persons;(13) other indoor public places and the places and transportation facilities designated and announced by all levels of competent authorities.The places mentioned in the preceding paragraph where smoking is prohibited shall have conspicuous non-smoking signs at all of their entrances, and shall not supply smoking-related objects.Regulations concerning the area, facilities, equipment, and other related matters of indoor smoking rooms pursuant to Sub-paragraph 3 and the exception of Sub-paragraph 11 of Paragraph 1 shall be stipulated by the central competent authority.