We have the exact same law in France. But on top of the smoker getting fined for smoking, the bar owner allowing them to smoke is also fined. I’m not sure about jail, though. The oriental tobacco pipe narghile , which is very fashionable, has the same restrictions (ie special smoking rooms), and that caused
some uproar too as previously there were bars especially devoted to narghile smoking .

This law might seem unduly harsh, but speaking for French people, we are nowhere near as disciplined as Japanese people. If you don’t have a strict law, people more or less do as they please…and even with the law they do ! Protecting non-smoker from passive tobacco- related disease calls for such a law.

しほのほしさん、

貴重なお話をありがとう！
その肺の写真、電車やお店で大々的に貼ってほしいですね！
本当に、セカンドハンドスモークをだすって犯罪！