Tokyo Metropolitan Government denies a total smoking ban in restaurants and public places
to avoid second-hand smoke.

Former Governor Ishihara of Tokyo did not know that Kanagawa Prefecture had compiled a basic
plan for an ordinance to ban smoking in restaurants and other public places to prevent
second-hand smoking. The Governor Ishihara thinks that smoking is the matter of a hobby and
therefore, Tokyo Metropolitan Government will not consider proposing the new law to ban smoking
at restaurants and public places.
(April 19, 2008)

A smoking habit is a 'disease', or is a 'traditional culture' ??
Former Governor, Tokyo Metropolitan Government, Inose

The Governor of Tokyo Metropolitan Government, Inose thinks that a cigarette and alcohol are the
symbol of Japanese tradition. If people go ahead with the idea of Islamic fundamentalism, that is
'Smoking is equal to evil', the Japanese traditional culture will be vanished. The ideas in a market
society are based on the consumers' standpoint, and any thinking to deny this rule is the same to
fascism by the name of health. A total smoking ban in the campus of college and railway station
excluding smokers is doubtful, and it seems to him that Japanese people are
behaving like a little child.
(November 24, 2009)


Former Governor of Tokyo Metropolitan Government, Ishihara at Lausanne, France

A very few Japanese welcomed Tokyo Olympic. We did not disappoint the result. Tokyo and Japan
spend at least $150 million* for this crazy invitation game.
* Japanese Communist Party claims the Governor Ishihara used $ 360 million wastefully for Olympic
game run, including his private diversion of a municipal public finance. He should recognize that
Tokyo and Japan would be given the mark as the lowest city and country in the phase of healthy
smoke-free eating environment.

The Governor of Tokyo Metropolitan Government, Ishihara withheld to announce the statement
about a total smoking ban recommended by the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare, because the
things will be discussed at the division in command. He avoided expressing his own opinion.
Source: 2010.2.26 Tokyo Metropolitan Television Broadcasting Corp.

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Divergence of opinion about smoking, between the New York Mayor, Bloomberg,
Tokyo Governor, Ishihara and Deputy Governor, Inose

Tokyo Metropolitan Government advised to establish a separate smoking
space in restaurants and a public place.



In November 2011, Tokyo Metropolitan Government announced the revision of the measures to
cope with a side-smoke hazard, in suggesting to divide a public space into smoking and nonsmoking,
e.g. in a restaurant. The officer in charge said each firm may choose which systems they adopt,
either a total or a partial smoking ban, based on the situation of that food shop. Although they
recommend a total ban in a public space, an entrepreneur can set up an area for smokers in their
shop. A man of Departmentof Health Policy of Tokyo Government suggested to post a notice of
smoking or no-smoking at the entrance of the restaurant, in order to the consumer can select the
restaurants or pubs.

Smoking Control in Restaurants at Tokyo for the 2020 Olympic

Tokyo Metropolitan Government is planning to prevent a second-hand smoking at a food industries
by showing the sticker on the entrance of restaurants, in four different forms. These are:
(1) A total smoking ban, (2) Smoking is prohibited during the certain hours of the day,
(3) A complete separation of smoking and area, in which smoking is prohibited, and
(4) Smoking and non-smoking areas are present in the same indoor space. The office has distributed
four different sticker label, as shown as follows. Each restaurant and bar can select one of the
stickers and may show it of the entrance to the shop.


Sticker labels recommended by Tokyo Metropolitan Government Bureau of Social Welfare and Public Health.
店頭表示ステッカー

東京都福祉保健局では「10年後の東京」計画に基づき、飲食店での受動喫煙防止を推進しています。飲食店の
店頭にわかりやすく表示されれば、たばこを吸う人も吸わない人も、お店を選びやすくなり、結果として、
利用者の受動喫煙の機会を減らすことにつながります。東京都は、お店の対策にあわせて貼れるステッカーを
作成し、店頭表示を呼びかけるリーフレットとともに配布します。
飲食店が、全面禁煙、完全分煙、空間分煙、時間禁煙の４種類の中から選んで貼れます。

Comment

A big question is why the health official has been recommended to establish a separate smoking
space in a shop.
Who was a lecturer? Their knowledge is based on an incorrect information given at their study class?
We are utterly scandalized at obsolete idea of the cigarette smoke control. I am afraid that nobody
knows the WHO's Framework Convention on Tobacco Control ( FCTC ) , and Japan has signed this treaty
to promote a total smoking ban in apublic space. No industrial advanced country is seeking the goal of
the system, in which we accepted the space for smokers in an indoor space. To admit the smoking
space is against the purpose of human health. No solution can be obtained from these unhealthy rooms.
All Tokyo Government health officials have neglected the world treaty of FCTC. They are discussing
the systems that tobacco company desired and recommended.
November, 2011 written by Junhaku Miyamoto, M.D., PhD.



This is a sign posted at the cafe's entrance in Tokyo. It says the shop provides 14 non-smoking
and 46 smoking seats inside. However, they are in the same indoor space. No wall extended
toward the ceiling to separate the guest seats. This represents the non-smokers and smokers
are staying in the same room, breathing together. There is completely meaningless; although,
all guests using this cafe do not mind it at all.

同じ部屋を衝立で区切っても吸っている空気は同じ。禁煙席、喫煙席の表示は「タバコを吸わない人の座る席」と
「タバコを吸う人の座る席」を指定しただけで、全く無意味。
タバコの有害煙を吸うリスクは禁煙席、喫煙席共にきわめて高い。客の無知に便乗した商品偽装表示。

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東京都医師会「受動喫煙防止」に関する意識調査　公開回答

質問　1．「健康増進法」に罰則規定を設けることに対する意見
・・　反対である。 「健康増進法」は単なる努力義務を謳ったもので、極めて不完全な法律である。
そうしたあいまいな内容に罰則を設けること自体が無理なこと。「健康増進法」に 代わる
「受動喫煙防止法」の制定が問題を解決する。しかし、注意すべきことは、 分煙制度を是認する
法令はタバコ会社の思うつぼで受動喫煙を阻止できず逆効果。

質問　2．FTTCのことは十分に承知している。日本は正式な条約の批准国である。 しかし、
国は公に署名した国際公約を無視し続けている。嘆かわしいことである。 　

質問　3．現時点では「東京都受動喫煙防止条例」の制定には反対である。

理由1．東京都庁の条例検討委員が分煙を柱に受動喫煙防止法を検討している。 石原知事は
タバコ規制に無関心であり、猪瀬直樹副知事はタバコ規制を「ファシズムだ」として
強い反対の立場をとっている。

理由2．元神奈川県知事、松沢氏は都内に事務所を設置、タバコ会社に迎合する かのように、
「完全分煙社会」を主張して都道府県などに働きかけている。

理由3．日本では「受動喫煙防止条例」のお手本として神奈川県条例をたたき台と して
検討する動きがあるが、この県条例は世界最悪とも批判されているもの。 これを模した
兵庫県受動喫煙防止条例は、本来の目的に反し、室内喫煙空間を是認したものに後退し、
神奈川県条例と同じく悪法のそしりを免れない。

理由4．「受動喫煙防止条例」は本来、国が制定すべき性格の法律で、都道府県が規制案を作成し
ても、飲食店や娯楽産業の利害関係に強く影響されて分煙制度を確定することに終わる。
「分煙制度」の法制化は絶対に避けねばならない！

理由5．厚生労働省が「空間分煙」を広報し、喫煙室の整備の経済的助成を行う 今の政権では
何も出来ない。ここで政府が分煙制度の撤廃を明言し、タバコ副流煙の有害性をテレビで
広報するような画期的な政策転換を行わない限り、タバコ規制枠組み条約に沿った「全面禁煙」
社会は日本では実現しない。

2012年3月18日　「禁煙席ネット」宮本順伯

どちらもどっち

猪瀬氏は著名な喫煙者である。猪瀬は、『税収に貢献する喫煙者のどこが悪い！』というコラム
で、ヒステリックな禁煙ファシズムを批判した。また、2000年頃に大学の禁煙の教室で喫煙しながら
教鞭を取ることもあった。ある学生がそれをいさめたところ、猪瀬は「私の講義中はこの教室は
分煙だ。君らの席は禁煙でも教壇は喫煙席である。文句があるなら受講していただかなくて結構」
とはねつけたという。なお、教壇との学生との間に仕切りがあるわけではない。

2010年3月、猪瀬直樹の「眼からウロコ」というコラムに、『全面禁煙化は中小企業や飲食店には
厳しい。タバコ税は国と地方をあわせ2兆円規模で安定した財源でもある』と書いている。

2012年11月、前神奈川県知事の松沢成文氏が都知事に立候補するとの表明のなかで、「公的施設
では吸わない人の健康を守るために、禁煙か完全分煙とする」と述べたことに、猪瀬氏は、神奈川
は県議会ではタバコが吸えることを指摘し、神奈川県の受動喫煙の防止対策を問題視した。
これに対して、松沢氏は県議会は「分煙」としていると反論し、猪瀬氏がパーティ会場で「分煙」
にせずに「喫煙」としていることを批判した。


オリンピック開催都市にはレストラン、バーを含む飲食産業での全面禁煙、鉄道施設での全面
禁煙が必須である。IOCは1988年よりオリンピック大会での完全禁煙を求めている。このまま
たばこ産業に牛耳られている日本社会を転換しない限り、1300億円以上と伝えられる
オリンピック招致関連費用は水の泡と化すことは必至とも見られていた。しかし、・・・

2020年夏のオリンピック開催国投票で、最有力候補とされていたマドリッドが経済的不安からで
あろう、第一回選考でイスタンブールに僅差で敗れ、「まさかと思わせる番狂わせ」が発生した。
その結果として東京が浮上、開催権を獲得した。水面下での招致工作、「おもてなし」を前面に
出した、フランス人を父親に持つ、滝川クリステルさんのプレゼンテーションなども大きく功を
奏したと思われる。予想外の福島の汚染水問題に会場の関心が集中し、安倍首相の断定的な
「It's under control」という、根拠に薄い回答で救われ、日本の最大の弱点である喫煙規制問題
がその陰に埋もれてしまったことが、その背景にある。

飲食店では自由喫煙、不完全分煙の多い東京で、数多くのオリンピツク参加者から大きな非難が
引起こされるであろう。飲食店に限らず東京のホテルにおける喫煙客室の多さは突出している。
世界で正に堂々と喫煙車両を走らせているのは日本国のみである。数年前まで見られていた
オーストラリア鉄道、フィンランド鉄道の喫煙ブースも、今や完廃されている。喫煙規制に関する
限り、日本は世界でも全く異常な国となっている。

今の状況を改めて公共的空間の全面禁煙を実行するのは非常に難しい。日本国内で解決できない
ときは、恥ずかしいことであるが、外圧によって自国内の異常性を気づいてらうしかないかも
しれない。

2012年12月執筆　2013年9月加筆　
執筆　医学博士 宮本順伯

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Former Tokyo Govvernor Inose announces resignation over money scandal.

Tokyo Gov. Naoki Inose announced his resignation on December 19, over his receiving of
50 million yen in cash from hospital operator Tokushukai, which is mired in vote-buying
allegations involving a Diet member.
Source: Tokyo, Kyodo, The Mainichi, December 19, 2013

Former TV presenter and cabinet minister Yoichi Masuzoe has won the election for Tokyo
governor.Mr. Masuzoe agrees with government plans to restart Japan's nuclear reactors,
while his two closest rivals campaigned on an anti-nuclear platform. He has not done the rest
-riction of smoking in a public space when he was Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare of
Japan between 2007-2009.
Februaruy 9, 2014


Tokyo Metropolitan Government advised to establish a separate smoking space in restaurants.

Yoichi Masuzoe, the formwe Governor of Tokyo told the interview with the Asahi-Shimbun,
because it is difficult to enact an ordinance, he has no plan to enforce a smoking ban in
a public indoor space. However, he emphasised to assist to build up new smoking facilities
inside of hospitality industries as the Olympic host city of Tokyo, to prevent a second-hand
smoking, and to cope with the guests who visit Tokyo in the 2020 Olympian year.
Source: Asahi Shimbun Digital: December 27, 2014




The subsidy rate is 80% of the total construction fee, with the maximum of 3,000,000 yen.
This is for the restaurants and hotels which accept a foreign tourist, as a countermeasure for
the 2020 Tokyo Olympic. This financial aid started in July 2015. What a foolish policy! It is
against to the global treaty and a violation of the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control,
which Japan ratified in 2004.
Junhaku Miyamoto, M.D.,PhD.

How to protect you from the toxic tobacco-smoke when you use a restaurant in Japan.

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The former Tokyo Governor Masuzoe' s misuse of political funds cannot be denied.

His political funds' scandal was exposed by the weekly magazine Shukan Bunshun, which
reported recently that a total of about 370,000 yen paid to a resort hotel in Chiba Prefecture
in January 2013 and January 2014, was booked as expenses for 'conference fees,' but was
actually spent to cover costs for family vacations.

If the allegation proves true, Masuzoe will come under suspicion of having made false
entries of expenses in political funds' reports in violation of the Political Funds Control Law.
Source: The Japan News by Yomiuri Shimbun, May 14, 2016

Th former Tokyo Governor Masuzoe admits using political funds for private dining.

　
Photo source: TV Asahi


Former Tokyo Gov. Yoichi Masuzoe on Friday admitted to using political funds for private wining
and dining, in another blow to the governor who has been under fire over his use of official cars
for frequent visits to his resort villa and expenditures for his overseas trips. I deeply apologize
for not being conscientious enough, Masuzoe, who has been in the post since 2014, told a press
conference, saying he would correct a political funds' report submitted by a group he headed as
expenses not related to his politic activities were wrongly booked.

However, the weekly magazine Shukan Bunshun recently reported that no such meetings were
held, citing a person linked to the hotel, who added Masuzoe visited the hotel for family trips.
He was found to have spent more than 200 million yen on nine overseas trips since he became
governor in February 2014, including travel and accommodation fees for officials who accompanied
him. During a seven-day trip that took him to Paris and London last year, Masuzoe traveled first
class at a cost of around 2.65 million yen and stayed in hotel rooms that cost about 200,000
yen per night. He has also faced criticism for visiting his vacation home in Yugawara, a hot-
spring resort area in Kanagawa Prefecture, nearly every weekend, using metropolitan govern-
ment vehicles. Masuzoe had insisted that the trips were necessary, and he followed the rules
regarding the use of public vehicles; however, he later said that he would seek to reduce
spending on overseas trip and will basically stop using official cars to visit his vacation home.
Source: The Mainichi, May 13, 2016

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（L)）New Governor of Tokyo, Yuriko Koike （R）Koike shaked hand with Rice in August 2007.


Candidate Masuda of Liberal-Democratic Party insisted the need of indoor smoking space.


New Tokyo Govonor Koike can achieve the total smoking ban at a public indoor space???

She started to work as an Arabic interpreter of the VIP, and in Tokyo, she played as the first
newscaster of "World Business Satellite" of TV Tokyo. After that, she entered to politic activities,
and she held a number of ministers in the cabinet. At the election for the Tokyo governor in
July 2016, she won a landslide victory, (The percentage of votes 44.49%, with the difference
of more than 100 million votes to the runner-up candidate.)

At the pre-election TV debate, she said that "no Olympic host city exists without the total
smoking ban in restaurants. We expect a big switch of the attitude of Tokyo Metropolitan
Government concerning the smoking restriction in a public place.
Junhaku Miyamoto, M.D.,PhD. August 2016



Governor Koike denies the total smoking ban, and proposed in September and November 2017, the following
restrictions in the Tokyo's ordinance: It allows a designated smoking area in small restaurant and bar and abroad
trains. In January 2018, she announced to postpone the setting of the metropolitan anti-smoking ordinance to
maintain consistency with the nation-wide regulation which will be determined bythe Japanese Government.

The worst anti-smoking measures have announced by Japanese Government in 2018.
　　Olympic healthy sports environment is frustrating.

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Smoking Regulation Awareness Survey in Japan
Do you support the indoor total smoking ban?

Smoking should be prohibited in all indoor public space 83.7%
The individual firms select the state of smoking restriction and show the outcome in the entrance 9.2%
A smoking-space separation in a facility 5.5%

Gender display of voters: Male, 61.8%, Female 36.6%
Source: Asahi Shimbun Awareness Survey on smoking regulation performed in April 2017.

Smoking Rate Investigation in Japan



Overall smoking rate: 17.9% of the total population in Japan
Gender display: Male, 27.8%, Year-on-year 0.4% decrease
Female 8.7%　Year-on-year 0.3% decrease
Source. JT data May 2018


Tokyo metro government enacts watered-down ordinance against passive smoking at restaurants.

The new anti-smoking law shows that the indoor smoking is prohibited, in principle, at restaurants
and bars that employ workers regardless of the size of seating spaces. Customers can enjoy a cigarette
in smoking rooms, however, are not allowed to have the meals in such spaces.
June 27, 2018 Mainichi Japan

Financial Support for build up a smoking space inside restaurants, cafes and bars.

New Smoking restriction set by Tokyo Metropolitan Government was approved at the Assembly in June 2018.
It will be enforced in April 2020. It is far from the agreement with IOC, and determined according to a political
background, considering the tobacco company, JT. The main contents are the financial support with
from 80% to 90% of the whole construction fee, the upper limit of 4,000,000 yen, of smoking indoor space.


Source: NHK April 18, 2019

However, the new rule applies that eating and drinking are prohibited in the smoking space inside,
except in a small food shop which does not have an employee. In contrast to that the nation-wide rule
allows smoking in a restaurant, cafe and bar, if the size of the shop if smaller than 100m2.
Junhaku Miyamoto, M.D.,PhD.

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　 In January 2011, the government of Spain enforced a total smoking ban in restaurants and bars.
　A total smoking ban in restaurants and bars in Brazil
　Turkey enforced a blanket ban on smoking in enclosed public places.

　Smoke-free restaurants and cafe are a precondition for Olympic Games.
　Smoke-free hotels in Japan

Do not repeat to commit a mistake of the anti-smoking ordinance introduced by the Kanagawa Prefecture.
Tobacco industry promotes to establish a separate smoking room in a restaurant and pub for smokers,
trying to control the mind of all Japanese people by a repeated TV commercial.

Herald Tribune International
Japan must move faster on anti-smoking laws.

TV Debate:
Distinguish between right and wrong about a total smoking ban in public places
(In Japanese).

Tobacco: The most sophisticated and engineered products on the market
Display their ignorance or intended concealment of tobacco-smoke hazard. The Mainichi
TV ad by Japan Tobacco Inc.


分煙室容認の東京都
2008年4月執筆 　2009年11月加筆 　2011年12月加筆　2012年3月加筆　2013年5月加筆　2014年2月加筆　 2015年1月加筆　
2015年8月加筆　2016年5月加筆　 2018年7月加筆　 2019年4月加筆 　2020年7月前都知事一部修正
執筆　医学博士 宮本順伯
The article was written in April 2008, and last revised in july 2020, by Junhaku Miyamoto, M.D., PhD.
Copyright(C) 2008 Junhaku Miyamoto, All rights reserved.