Summary

Society has been aware of the negative health effects of smoking tobacco and the passive inhaling of tobacco smoke for decades. To reduce the consumption of tobacco, several countries around the world have developed tobacco control policies, through which society is increasingly guided towards giving up the consumption of tobacco. The basic document in developing the tobacco policy globally is the World Health Organisation’s (WHO) Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC) adopted in 2005. This has been identified as one of the most efficient means in achieving control over the consumption of tobacco products and most anti-tobacco policies are related to the aforementioned framework convention. The framework convention has been ratified by 181 countries, including Estonia, United Kingdom, Canada, and New Zealand.

This article provides an overview of the implementation of the full smoking ban in closed institutions established in the Anglo-American legal system, the need and justification for implementing the ban, and its efficiency. The article also gives a summary of the observations of courts on the above matter.