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Government accused not allocating sufficient resources to enforce smoking ban

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The Chairman of Clear the Air, James Middleton, has accused the government of not allocating sufficient resources to enforce smoking ban in some places.

He says there is not enough staff to do the job and out of the billions of dollars being collected in tobacco tax, none of it goes towards tobacco control.

Middleton also says the mainland has better laws than Hong Kong on banning smoking.

He tells Ben Tse that when a suggestion was made to the Liquor Licensing Board to strengthen licensing conditions to prevent smoking in places like bars, it refused to do so.

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