A newly released survey said that about 81 percent workers in Japan want the authorities to adopt measures against secondhand smoke in their workplaces, according to local report on Saturday that marks the World No Tobacco Day.
The poll covers 8,000 people who mainly spend more than half their working hours indoors want smoking bans or separate smoking rooms in their working place, Japan's Kyodo News quoted the pool conducted by Johnson & Johnson K.K. as reporting.
The survey covered a range of industries from manufacturing, catering and civil services and showed that 52 percent said smoking is banned in their workplace, while 62 percent said they favored a mandatory ban on smoking at workplaces and restaurants.