Educative approach to smoking ban at eateries for six months

For the first six months of this year the Health Ministry will take an "educative" approach to enforce its smoking ban at all public eateries.

Its minister Dzulkefly Ahmad today said that punitive actions would only be enforced from the second half of this year.

"I know there are people who are saying 'let's do it (issue fines) now' but at the ministry, we have a standard operating procedure...