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How the Act Will Affect You

How will the new law on smoking in public places affect you now that it is in force. Find out more by reading answers to all your questions.

Read about some real life examples of how companies pre-empted the law by operating no-smoking policies.

Detailed advice and guidance is now available on how companies and organisations can comply with the new law.

Is Your Business Affected?

Use our flowchart to see whether your business needs to take action to comply with the Act.

General Information Leaflet

Download the General public information leaflet.

PDF English - info-leaflet.pdf [PDF, 366KB]
PDF Arabic - arabic-info-leaflet.pdf [1,194Kb]
PDF Bengali - bengali-info-leaflet.pdf [1,029Kb]
PDF Cantonese - cantonese-info-leaflet.pdf [1,160Kb]
PDF French - french-info-leaflet.pdf [225Kb]
PDF Gaelic - gaelic-info-leaflet.pdf [224Kb]
PDF Hindi - hindi-info-leaflet.pdf [1,464Kb]
PDF Kurdish - kurdish-sorani-info-leaflet.pdf [1,679Kb]
PDF Latvian - latvian-info-leaflet.pdf [228Kb]
PDF Lithuanian - lithuanian-info-leaflet.pdf [227Kb]
PDF Polish - polish-info-leaflet.pdf [227Kb]
PDF Punjabi - punjabi-info-leaflet.pdf [1,532Kb]
PDF Russian - russian-info-leaflet.pdf [232Kb]
PDF Urdu - urdu-info-leaflet.pdf [1,588Kb]

Advice on Quitting

Smokeline Scotland
Call 0800 848484
12 noon to 12 midnight, seven days a week.


Smoking, Health and Social Care Act (Scotland) 2005


Prohibition of Smoking in Certain Premises (Scotland) Regulations 2006