South Australia bans smoking and vaping at major public places

Smoking and vaping will be banned at popular outdoor areas in South Australia from Friday, with fines for those who flout the law.

The no smoking and vaping zones will be expanded to include outdoor swimming pools, children’s sporting events, and beaches near patrol flags and jetties.

It will also include outside shopping centre entrances, childcare facilities, schools and hospitals.

It comes after laws were introduced to protect the community from passive exposure to tobacco smoke and vape exhalant.

Anyone caught out in the banned outdoor zones face on-the-spot fines of $105 and penalties of up to $750 if prosecuted.