Smokefree premises and areas

Smoking is prohibited

1. on the indoor premises of family day care homes when family day care is provided there, on the indoor and outdoor premises of day-care centres, and on the indoor premises and outdoor areas of institutions providing care for persons under the age of eighteen in virtue of the Child Welfare Act (417/2007) or the Mental Health Act (1116/1990);
2. on the indoor premises of educational institutions providing basic, vocational or upper secondary education and in their student dormitories, as well as in the outdoor areas in their use;
3. on the indoor premises of government agencies and authorities and comparable public bodies intended for the public and clients;
4. at public events arranged indoors;
5. on the joint and public indoor premises of workplaces and on their indoor premises intended for clients and customers, unless otherwise provided below;
6. inside public means of transport;
7. on the joint and public indoor premises of apartment house companies or residential real estates of other housing communities; and
8. in shelters and spectators’ halls at public events arranged outdoors, and on other premises intended for following the event where the participants stay on places assigned for them.

If an establishment allows smoking in the restaurant’s outdoor serving area or elsewhere in an outdoor area in the establishment’s possession, the establishment shall see to it that tobacco smoke does not spread through an open window, door or other opening or ventilation to the indoor premises of the restaurant.

Apartment house companies or other housing communities may forbid smoking in the joint outdoor areas close to the building’s air conditioning openings, in children’s playground and on joint balconies.