Smoking Manners Campaign underway in Seoul

Source from:  Tobacco Reporter 09/21/2010

JTI Korea and SK Networks have jointly launched the 2010 Smoking Manners Campaign aimed at promoting roads and streets free from cigarette butts, according to a story in The Korea Times. As part of the campaign, JTI Korea was due distribute a total of 20,000 portable ashtrays free of charge at SK gas stations in Seoul and the surrounding Gyeonggi Province. JTI Korea has conducted such a campaign since 2001. Because the Seoul metropolitan government had, from September 1, started fining those who threw cigarette butts from the windows of their cars, it was hoped that a lot of smokers would take part in the campaign, said JTI Korea general manager, Ali Yagiz, in a statement. Through the campaign, he said, the organizers wished to maintain clean expressways over the Chuseok holidays [harvest festival holiday due to start tomorrow] nationwide, as well as clean streets in the Seoul area. Also, they hoped that a 'healthy smoking culture" would be created where smokers and non-smokers coexisted in a spirit of mutual respect. Enditem