Taipei plans to install smoking rooms in Zhongshan and Ximen
Taipei plans to install smoking rooms in Zhongshan and Ximen
2026-03-16
Taipei is moving to become a “smoke-free city” so that non-smokers don’t have to contend with the smells or smoke of tobacco. The city is planning an infrastructure upgrade in bustling shopping districts of Ximending and Zhongshan. The city is taking a page out of Japan’s book to install smoking rooms where the smoke and smell remain contained. But since smoking indoors is banned everywhere in Taiwan, there have been some doubts about the feasibility of such rooms. The Minister of Health and Welfare, Shih Chung-liang says that it should be OK. Let’s hear more.
Member of public
In Ximending
I personally don’t like the smell of cigarette smoke. It makes me uncomfortable. I really hate the smell.
Member of public
In Ximending
I don’t like the smell, it stinks. But I wouldn’t try to stop them, they might hit me.
Member of public
In Ximending
It might end up like Japan, where smokers can only smoke at designated areas.
Chiang Wan-an
Taipei Mayor
The next phase focuses on crowded areas such as the Zhongshan and Ximending shopping districts, where we’re planning to install designated smoking rooms with negative pressure. Step by step, we walk closer to becoming a smoke-free city.
Shih Chung-liang
Minister of Health and Welfare
If Taipei is aiming to ban smoking at some pedestrian areas, designate smoking areas and set up smoking rooms, I think that would be legally feasible. The city announced it was aiming to become smoke-free and designating specific outdoor smoking areas. That’s feasible, legally.
The city is planning to install indoor smoking areas similar to those found in Japan. The Health Promotion Administration says the indoor smoking areas should be sound, as long as they are maintained and managed properly, and implement all the necessary waste disposal and fire prevention measures.
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北市西門.中山商圈擬設戶外吸菸室! 衛福部:法規可行
2026-03-16
台北市要打造無菸城市，鎖定西門和中山兩個商圈，效法日本，設置「戶外吸菸室」，衛福部長石崇良掛保證，喊話法規可行，戶外可設吸菸室，避免不吸菸的民眾，受到二手菸危害。
[[西門商圈民眾]]
我本身是一個很不喜歡菸味的人，我自己覺得很不舒服啦，我是超討厭那個味道。
[[西門商圈民眾]]
“不喜歡菸味，很臭。勸阻他?不會，我怕他K我。”
[[西門商圈民眾]]
“應該像日本一樣，可能只有到吸菸室才可抽菸。”
[[台北市長 蔣萬安]]
“下一個階段我們就選在人潮眾多的中山商圈及西門商圈，評估設置戶外負壓吸菸區。一步一步務實的來，將無菸城市往前推進。”
[[衛福部長 石崇良]]
“(若)台北市他是要公告，某一個行人步道區為禁菸場所，然後再指定吸菸區，然後以戶外吸菸室來代替、指定吸菸區。我想，於法並無不合。去公告無菸城市，然後再去指定戶外的指定吸菸區，在法規上是可行。”
鎖定中山和西門商圈，北市府效法日本準備蓋戶外負壓吸菸室，原以為台灣法規只規範室內全面禁止吸菸，但國健署鬆口，只要盡到維護及保管責任，並確保公安、廢棄物處理及避免火災，就能設置戶外吸菸區。
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