The New South Wales state government will look to introduce legislation to parliament to ban smoking in a variety of public spaces including playgrounds, swimming pools and transport stops.
In an announcement by state health minister Jillian Skinner today (February 21), the NSW Tobacco Strategy will also will include a smoking ban in commercial outdoor dining areas from 2015.
"The distress and cost that smoking inflicts on families, and the burden this imposes on NSW’s health system, is simply not acceptable," she said.
