World Health Organization

2014

This publication supports the implementation of the WHO Health 2020 policy. It documents a local smoke-free beach initiative employing whole-of-government and whole-of society approaches to address a common public health challenge: smoking and exposure to tobacco smoke in public settings. The key steps in developing the initiative were: recognition of a public health risk, assessment/engagement of stakeholder interest in addressing the risk, enactment of a regulation to reduce the risk (banning smoking on the beach) and information for beachgoers promoting the idea and enforcing the ban.