Smoke-Free Environments
2024 ASEAN Smoke-free Award Report
The 2024 ASEAN Smoke-free Award Report highlights the region’s ongoing commitment to building healthy, smoke-free communities. Launched in 2012 under the leadership of the 12th ASEAN Secretary-General Dr. Surin Pitsuwan, the “Towards a Smoke-free ASEAN” campaign aims to reduce tobacco-related harm, protect against secondhand smoke, and promote healthier lifestyles. Anchored in the ASEAN Post-2015 Health Development Agenda and the ASEAN Declaration on Culture of Prevention, the Award—spearheaded by Lao PDR in partnership with SEATCA and the ASEAN Secretariat—recognizes outstanding cities, municipalities, and provinces championing smoke-free policies across the region.
Promotion of Smoke-Free Airport
Airports are more than just transit hubs, they are critical public spaces where ensuring clean air is essential. This fact sheet advocates for the adoption of 100% smoke-free policies in airports, including bans on electronic smoking devices, by presenting the public health rationale, outlining key benefits for passengers, staff, and operations, and offering practical strategies for policy adoption, enforcement, and public awareness. It also features a global list of the busiest airports that have successfully implemented smoke-free policies, serving as models for governments, airport authorities, and advocates working to advance tobacco control in line with the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC).
Smoke-free Policy Implementation & Enforcement : A Practical Guide (PDF 5.6mb)
Creating a healthy, sustainable environment starts with ensuring clean air for all—a fundamental human right, not just for a privileged few. To protect public health, governments must commit to establishing, implementing, and enforcing 100% smoke-free laws.
The new publication, “Smoke-Free Policy Implementation & Enforcement: A Practical Guide,” is tailored to support tobacco control task forces and enforcement agencies in effectively implementing and upholding smoke-free policies. Given that there is no safe level of exposure to tobacco smoke, enforcing these laws is essential to shielding the public from harmful secondhand smoke (SHS).
This guide offers a structured approach to building a sustainable smoke-free environment in alignment with the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC). It showcases how coordinated, well-planned implementation and enforcement of smoke-free policies lead to successful outcomes, as exemplified by best practices from Brunei Darussalam, Cambodia, Fiji, Kiribati, Singapore, the Solomon Islands, Beijing (China), Shanghai (China), Penang (Malaysia), and Iloilo City (Philippines).
Smoke-free Index Myanmar: Implementation of WHO FCTC Article 8 (PDF 18.7mb)
Protection from exposure to tobacco smoke in Myanmar, 2022.
Smoke-Free Index: Implementation of Article 8 of the WHO Framework convention on Tobacco Control (Protection from Exposure to Tobacco Smoke) in ASEAN Countries, 2020 PDF 1.3mb
This Index is based on the WHO FCTC Article 8 Guidelines which shows an update on the smoke-free laws and its enforcement in the 10 countries in the ASEAN region. The 2020 version includes a section on the tobacco industry’s smoke-free lie as they use the term “smoke-free” to refer to heated tobacco products and electronic nicotine delivery systems as they claim to transform its business by switching smokers of traditional cigarettes to its new tobacco products in order to achieve a “smoke-free future”. Clearly, the tobacco industry is not serious about achieving this goal, as it continues its massive production and aggressive worldwide marketing of traditional cigarettes and unabashedly continues to undermine tobacco control efforts of countries dedicated to creating 100% smoke-free environments. At the same time, e-cigarettes are creating a new generation of nicotine addicts and hindering those who want to quit smoking for good.
Smoke-Free Toolkit: Implementing FCTC Article 8 Guidelines PDF 6.3mb
This toolkit is designed as a training module aiming to build the capacity and confidence of the smoke-free focal persons in different government and non-government organizations, and equip them with the basic knowledge, skills and tools to strengthen the implementation of FCTC Article 8 guidelines in their cities, states, and provinces. It includes application of the seven principles of the FCTC Article 8 Guidelines; assessing the different smoke-free settings in the law and discuss how these settings compare with the standard definition; identifying and applying the key elements in the smoke-free campaign by using the smoke-free meter; defining compliance and enforcement; identifying the duties and responsibilities of the organizations in the working group; identifying the enforcement mechanism and apply the 10 steps in making a city smoke-free as well as learning using the social media in strengthening the campaign and the network.
Smoke-free Index:
Implementation of Article 8 of the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (2017) PDF 1mb
This SEATCA Smoke-free Index describes the implementation of the seven principles of WHO FCTC Article 8 in the ASEAN region. It is intended to assist Parties in meeting their obligations under Article 8 of the FCTC. It contains agreed statement of principles and definitions of relevant terms, and identifies measures needed to achieve effective protection from the hazards of exposure second-hand tobacco smoke including enforcement, monitoring and evaluation. The summary of smoke-free settings (indoor and outdoor) based primarily on the national law including the notifications, regulations, amendments are included.
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Your Guide To A Smoke-free City: A Glimpse of Davao City Philippines PDF 2.2mb
As one of the earliest smoke-free city initiative in the ASEAN countries, Davao is celebrating its 10th anniversary of smoke-free city. Davao has effectively implemented a smoke-free legislation and that set a leading example for taking forward the smoke-free agenda in the Philippines since early 2002. The booklet provides a brief background of Davao City and documents the history of the comprehensive Anti-Smoking Ordinance and the birth of the Anti-Smoking Task Force which implemented the smoke-free initiative in Davao City. It also presents eleven key elements of a Smoke-Free City Campaign. These were employed by the government’s Anti-Smoking Task Force to implement smoke-free initiatives at educational and healthcare facilities, government offices/facilities, workplaces, public transportation and terminals, hotels, restaurants and bars, recreational facilities, police stations and prison. It also outlines ten steps towards a Smoke-Free City, describing a step-by-step guide towards a smoke-free city.
Protecting the Right to Life: Promoting Smoke-free Public Places in ASEAN PDF 2.6mb
The booklet presents the evidence of the harmful effects of secondhand smoke (SHS) and emphasized on the fact that there is no safe level of exposure to SHS, only 100% smoke-free environments can effectively protect people. It also debunks myths and presents truths about going smoke-free and describing the status of smoke-free policy in seven ASEAN countries including Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Philippines, Thailand and Vietnam. Key elements of an effective smoke-free law are provided under the policy recommendations to assist countries implement effective measures for protection from exposure to tobacco smoke.
Smoke-free Policies and Enforcement in the ASEAN PDF 2.6mb
