In the UK, smoke-free legislation provides that most workplaces must be smoke free.
Employers should review their policies and practices on a regular basis, to ensure that they are complying with the legislation, including for example in relation to their vehicles and employees who work remotely.
A total ban on smoking in pubs looks increasingly likely following an indication that Tony Blair will offer MPs a free vote in the House of Commons.
Almost three-quarters of people across the UK back an all-out ban on smoking in places of work, including pubs and restaurants, research reveals
A ban on smoking at work for all Nottingham City Council employees is set to be brought forward
UK employers are clear to follow an international ban on recruitment of smokers, according to employment lawyers
The government finally published its health Bill in October outlining plans for a limited ban smoking in enclosed public places
The WHO will no longer employ people who smoke, to reinforce its position at the helm of the global campaign against smoking.
The net is closing in on smoking in the workplace. Ireland has done it. Wales is about to do it,...
Environmental health officers (EHOs) do not have the relevant skills to police a smoking ban, hospitality industry figures have warned
The UK's largest leisure and sports companies have increased the pressure for a total ban on smoking in the workplace.
MPs told to discard exemption to smoking ban.
The first guide on to how to implement a workplace smoking ban has been issued to employers in Scotland.
How will a partial smoking ban affect employees working in the exempt premises?
The British Hospitality Association has called the government's plan to outlaw smoking in the workplace a chaotic muddle.
Health secretary Patricia Hewitt has defended the plans for a partial ban on smoking in public places in England
Northern Ireland is to ban smoking in enclosed public places and workplaces.
