The rules also placed the burden on the employer to provide smoke-free zones.
Many companies already provide smoke-free zones, smoke breaks and other measures.
Two years ago smoking was banned on domestic airline flights, but smoke-free zones are still regarded as a novelty in public buildings.
To accentuate the positive, no-smoking areas were renamed smoke-free zones.
It must have been there for years, he thought, because the area was a smoke-free zone now, like most of the country.
For example, at their request, employees must be provided with a smoke-free zone eight feet in diameter.
He also signed legislation to expand smoke-free zones around public buildings.
The health secretary said he would write letters to hospital administrators asking that the hospitals be declared smoke-free zones.
The regulations place the burden on the employer to provide a smoke-free zone for those who want it.
Ordinarily my office is a smoke-free zone, but I make an exception.