This is according to revised bill restricting the use of tobacco products.

Article 10 of the bill specifies the following non-smoking places:

- Education and nurturing institutions and their territories;

- Health care, rehabilitation and sanatorium-and-spa institutions and their territories (with the exception of open spaces and special closed places. The requirements for such locations will be determined by the relevant executive authority);

- All enterprises, institutions and organizations irrespective of their type of ownership and organizational-legal form (with the exception of open spaces and special closed places);

- sports venues and other areas for public events;

- Restaurants, cafes, bars, including the public catering facilities (with the exception of open spaces and special closed places)

- Trade facilities;

- Household objects;

- Social service facilities;

- Means of positioning;

- Theaters and cinemas, circus buildings, exhibition halls, reading rooms, libraries, museums and other cultural facilities;

- Children's playgrounds;

- closed surface and underground pedestrian crossings;

- Buses running on regular inter-city (intra-district), long distance (inter-district) and international routes, cars and taxis

- Vestibules, crossings, platforms and carriages at subway stations;

- Air transport, railway trains (except for specially designated areas). Water transport (except for specially designated areas);

- administrative buildings of airports and ports, except for especially designated areas, railway stations, bus terminals and bus stops;

- Inside elevators and multi-family residential buildings;

- Payphones;

- Petrol stations, as well as buildings and facilities storing flammable substances;

Owners of all kinds of enterprises, institutions and organizations irrespective of their type of ownership and organizational-legal form must ban smoking at their facilities except for special places for smoking and ensure that there is a “No smoking” sign. Places designated for smoking must correspond to sanitarian-hygienic norms.

The revised bill will be submitted for a parliamentary discussion on April 14.

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