UNIVERSITI TUN HUSSEIN ONN MALAYSIA

SESSION II 2018/2019

UHB 30102

ENGLISH FOR TECHNICAL PURPOSE

SURVEY PROPOSAL
SECTION 21

A SURVEY PROPOSAL ON SMOKING BAN IN PUBLIC PLACES

AMONG BATU PAHAT COMMUNITY

PREPARED BY:

STUDENT NAME MATRIX NO.

AHMAD YAMIN BIN ABDUL RAHMAN DF160093

MUHAMMAD ASMAWI BIN MOHD AYOB DF160067

MOHD ZULHAIRI BIN ABDUL RASHID DF160049

ARIFF HAIQAL BIN JOHARI DF160065

MUHAMMAD NAEM BIN MOHD YUSOF DF160073

1.1 BACKGROUND OF STUDY

Smoking in Malaysia was first dealt with in legislation requiring a general warning
message on all Malaysian cigarette packaging in 1976. Smoking bans in public places
started to be implemented in the 1980s (Wikipedia, 2019). With the increased taxes on
tobacco products coming up in November 2018, as well as a ban on smoking at all eateries
in 2019, it looks like Malaysia is following Singapore and Thailand suit in tightening the
smoking laws and regulations (Asklegal, 2018). Malaysia has sought to catch up with
neighboring countries such as Singapore and Thailand, although they did not endure
anywhere near the same opposition to bans (Scmp, 2019). For the conclusion, Malaysia
has started to ban smoking in public area including the eateries as Singapore and Thailand
already enrolled it.

The health minister has clarified that this ban will include vaping and shisha unless
they contain no nicotine. Offenders can be fined up to RM10,000 or be imprisoned for up
to 2 years. Deputy Health Minister Lee Boon Chye has stated that, come 2019, smoking
will be illegal in all air conditioned and non-air-conditioned restaurants, coffee shops,
open-air hawker centers, and even street stalls. Smokers will have to be at least 10 feet (3
meters) away if they feel like having a puff (Asklegal, 2018). The minister of health today
said the government intends to keep increasing the number of public places where smoking
will be prohibited (FMT News, 2019). So, we can conclude that there will be more places
to ban the smoking act and there will be fines if there are violations of rules.

To keep the momentum going throughout the year, the Deputy Health Minister said
the most important thing would be to keep the enforcement and awareness campaign
consistent (The Star Online, 2019). Over 3,000 premise and restaurant owners had been
briefed on the standard operating procedures and methods of enforcing the ban, during
town hall meetings with the ministry (FMT News, 2019). There are lots of methods have
been done by government to ensure that this legislation will be success and make sure the
people will obey the rules that have been set.
 For the first six months, Health Ministry officers would not issue fines but take note
of repeat offenders (The Star Online, 2019). But after six months there will be no tolerance
for those who violate the rule as there are 5,008 health officers would be empowered to
issue compound notices (FMT News, 2019). To make sure there will be success for this
new legislation, the government would give the tolerance for the first six month to ensure
the people get used to it. However, after that there will be serious action taken to those who
violate the rule.

The ban will be enforced through education enforcement, where there will be
explanations provided to people who caught smoking or to the premise owners, so no one
will be left behind on knowing the reasons why smoking ban are being enforce. This is not
a punishment but as an awareness to Malaysians to take ownership of their health (FMT
News, 2019). Smoking is an established cause of lung cancer and heart disease, one of the
nation's leading causes of death. Public smoking bans appear to significantly reduce the
risk of heart attacks, particularly among younger individuals and nonsmokers
(ScienceDaily, 2019). So, we can make an assumption that there will be lot of benefits
from this smoking ban action as it will give a big advantage to smokers and also people at
surrounding. This is because smoking will not only affect the smokers itself but also affect
the people all around them.
1.2 PROBLEM STATEMENTS

Many Malaysians still smoke a cigarette at public place such as Hospital,

Restaurants, Shopping Complex and University even though the government tighten the
law of smoking cigarettes at public space. That situations have make people around feel
uncomfortable because of the smoker did not care about people around went they release
the smoke. Even the government has stated that they will be ban and may be fined up to
10,000MYR or two years of imprisonment, they still did not care and keep smoking at the
public space especially at Mamak Stall when they watch the football match. These has been
a habit for a smoker to chill and relax at the restaurant while watching a football match and
smoke a cigarette. And these situations have been happened for a many years ago and the
probability to avoid an active smoker to smoke at public place is low.

Moreover, many stores still sell an illegal cigarette without government tax to a
smoker. It encourages the smokers to keep smoking because of the price of an illegal
cigarettes is low compare to normal cigarettes with government tax. In order to reduce the
number of smokers, government have to take serious action about the store that sell an
illegal cigarette too and also summon the owner of the store. Other than that, the number
of smokers in Malaysia increases year by year and it also increase the number of people
who get the disease because of cigarettes smoke. As we know, even we are not smoke a
cigarette we still can get the disease same as the smokers itself if we inhale and exhale the
smoke of tobacco that used in the cigarettes.

The Ministry of Malaysia aim to reduce the numbers of smokers in Malaysia for
over 15% because of 3billion MYR was spent due to the increasing number of chronic
cancer patient. One of the main reasons of cancer is the smoke of cigarettes as the cigarettes
smoke contains more than 7000 chemicals such as ammonia, benzene, nicotine, methanol
and many more. Some of which are carcinogenic or cancer causing. All the ingredients in
the cigarettes is not health for our body. The government’s plan to ban smoking at public
place will save lives as it will prevent non-smokers from being exposed to poisonous
secondary smoke.
1.3 OBJECTIVES SURVEY

1. To identify the effect of the smoking ban in public area

2. To evaluate the response among Batu Pahat society
3. To suggest the method to improve the smoking ban in Malaysia

1.4 OPERATIONAL DEFINITION OF TERMS

1. Smoking

Smoking is a practice in which a substance is burned, and the resulting smoke breathed in
to be tasted and absorbed into the bloodstream. Most commonly the substance is the dried
leaves of the tobacco plant which have been rolled into a small square of rice paper to
create a small, round cylinder called a "cigarette" (Wikipedia,2019).

2. Ban

To say officially that something is not allowed, or that someone is not allowed to do
something

3. Public Place

A public space is a place that is generally open and accessible to people. Roads (including
the pavement), public squares, parks and beaches are typically considered public space. To
a limited extent, government buildings which are open to the public, such as public libraries
are public spaces, although they tend to have restricted areas and greater limits upon use
(Wikipedia,2019).
2.0 METHODOLOGY
This chapter discuss the methods that used in our survey in smoking ban in public area around
Batu Pahat. The methods used were data collection tool, respondent, and location-time.
2.1 Data Collection Tool
2.1.1 Questionnaire will be used in this survey to collect the data from the respondent.
2.1.2 Questionnaire is used due to its efficiency and practical to gather vast amount of
data from a large sample size.
2.1.3 We will distributed 50 sets of questionnaire.
2.1.4 Questionnaire were distributed in English version.

2.2 Respondent
2.2.1 The respondent are the smokers and people from the age of 21 and above.
2.2.2 The respondent is include male and female.
2.2.3 People who are in the public area such as restaurant, shopping complex and
hospital.

2.3 Location and Time

2.3.1 The location of questionnaire will be conducted is along Batu Pahat area, and
mainly focused on the area within Parit Raja.
2.3.2 It will conducted at public area such as Restaurant, Shopping Complex, Hospital
and etc.
2.3.3 The questionnaire will distribute on Friday and Saturday at 9pm to 2am.
REFERENCES

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https://asklegal.my/p/malaysia-new-smoking-law-control-of-tobacco-product-regulations
2. FMT News (2019) More public places to be included in smoking ban accessed on 29 March
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be-included-in-smoking-ban/
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