Geumcheon-gu Appoints New 'Smoking Cessation Guides' to Enforce No-Smoking Zones

Conducted Facility Standard Inspections and Smoking Behavior Surveillance in Non-Smoking Areas Over 2 Years

Geumcheon-gu (Mayor Yu Seong-hoon) announced that it has appointed 10 smoking cessation guides to create a smoke-free environment and raise residents' awareness of smoking cessation.

On the 4th, the district held a new appointment ceremony for the smoking cessation guides and conducted job training on customer service skills and job performance.

The smoking cessation guides will be organized into teams of 2 to 3 people over two years to inspect compliance with facility standards in smoke-free zones, such as whether smoke-free zone signs or stickers are attached and whether indoor smoking room installation standards are met.

They will also perform duties such as ▲ monitoring and educating against smoking in smoke-free zones ▲ reporting violations of smoking cessation measures to administrative authorities ▲ supporting smoking cessation promotion and education.

In particular, they will focus on guiding and inspecting places where complaints arise due to habitual smoking in smoke-free zones and newly designated smoke-free areas.

The district operates a 'Smoking Cessation Clinic' to increase residents' success rates in quitting smoking. The clinic provides one-on-one counseling to guide smoking cessation behavioral therapy and offers smoking cessation aids. It also runs a 'Visiting Smoking Cessation Clinic' that provides smoking cessation education and counseling by visiting workplaces, schools, and other locations.

Additionally, to prevent safety accidents such as fires and explosions caused by smoking at gas stations, the entire area of gas stations in the region was designated as a smoke-free zone last November.

Yu Seong-hoon, Mayor of Geumcheon-gu, stated, "The guidance and inspection activities of the smoking cessation guides are expected to greatly help protect residents' health from secondhand smoke," and added, "We hope residents will also participate in creating a smoke-free environment for themselves, their families, and neighbors."

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