No smoking at open-air eateries


PETALING JAYA: Smoking at open-air mamak and hawker stalls may be illegal from December. The Health Ministry is trying to make these eateries no-smoking zones.

The ministry is pushing to gazette all open-air restaurants as no-smoking areas, said Deputy Health Minister Dr Lee Boon Chye.

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