Making it harder to light up

Blatant disregard: People smoking outside KLCC, where numerous non-smoking signs are regularly ignored.

SEREMBAN: All hotels will be gazetted as smoke-free areas by end of the year while other public places will gradually be out-of-bounds for smokers, under a mammoth plan to get 130,000 people to kick the habit annually.

This comes under the National Strategic Plan for Tobacco Control, a brainchild of several ministries, health institutes, universities, non-governmental organisations and the Malaysian Council for Tobacco Control.