As you may or may not know – the ‘Tabacco Law’ is finally here.
Supposed to be in place originally from October 31st, 2009 – this will immediately point out the problems with the proposal. Let’s look at what it says:
12.
(1) Subject to subsections (2) and (3), no person shall smoke in or within ten feet of a public place.
(2) No person shall smoke in a public place, but this prohibition does not extend to -
(a) rental condominium units, (b) hotel bedrooms; or
(c) halls-of-residence sleeping rooms,
that are designated in some manner as smoking allowed rooms by the establishment renting the rooms; and
(d) outdoor bars and restaurants provided that -
(i) the ten foot prohibition referred to in subsection (1) applies in respect of the entrance to the related facility, and
(ii) a no-smoking area is designated within that related facility.
(3) Smoking is permitted within a cigar bar, the owner of which shall within twelve months of the commencement of this Law install a smoke extractor/ventilator system in accordance with prescribed requirements.
(4) The management of all public places where smoking is prohibited shall post no-smoking signs as may be presecribed, which signs shall visibly bear the international no-smoking symbol clearly indicating that the establishment is smoke free.
All of the above is wide open to interpretation.
- Who is going to police this?
- Who is going to be measuring the distance of the ten foot prohibition from the entrance?
- Where is the entrance?
- Is it the entrance to the parcel of land or is it the threshold of a built entrance?
- The beach is public, no one can smoke within 10 feet of the beach? Police that!
Well, they bought themselves 30 days in delaying it’s roll out to December 31st, 2009. But, it is still wide open. By the way, who is going to tell people at New Years Party’s that they cannot smoke after 12?
I bet they didn’t ask the bars and restaurants for feedback on this. Further more, there will be ways around it. it won’t change peoples perceptions of a bar. They will still go to it. It just may take longer to get used to it in the Cayman Islands than maybe it did in big cities.
Here we go… Let the games begin.
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