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                Smoke-Free Ontario Act.

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Smoke-Free Ontario Signs

All signs required to be posted under the act and regulation should be posted in a conspicuous manner and should be clearly visible.

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Retailers must post Age Restriction and Health Warning signs at any location where tobacco is sold or supplied in a place where the sign is clearly visible to the person who sells or supplies the tobacco and to the person to whom the tobacco is sold or supplied.

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Retailers must post Government I.D. required signs at any location where tobacco is sold or supplied in a place where the sign is clearly visible to the person who sells or supplies the tobacco and to the person to whom the tobacco is sold or supplied.

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Employers and proprietors must place No Smoking signs at each entrance and exit of enclosed workplaces and enclosed public places in appropriate locations and in sufficient numbers to ensure that employees and the public are aware that no smoking is permitted in the enclosed workplace or enclosed public place.

Employers and proprietors of hotels, motels, and inns must place No Smoking signs in every guest room that has not been designated as a smoking room.

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If a controlled smoking area in a residential care facility, designated veterans facility or psychiatric facility is set aside for the purpose of smoking, the proprietor of the facility and the employer of the workers in the facility must post You Have To Live Here To Smoke Here signs outside the entrance to the controlled smoking area.

In addition, the proprietor of the facility and the employer of the workers in the facility must post, outside any entrance to the controlled smoking area, a sign indicating the maximum permitted occupancy of the controlled smoking area.

For further information or to obtain signage, please contact:

Tobacco Enforcement

Thunder Bay District Health Unit

(807) 625-8815

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