Cape Town Cigarette Smokers’ Guide

A bar may designate a smoking area under R975, limited to25% of total floor area with a solid partition, door, direct outside exhaust and signs. This is not permission throughout the venue. Employees are protected and under18s must be excluded from the smoking portion.

Applies in: South Africa

A nightclub may designate a smoking area under R975, limited to25% of total floor area with a solid partition, door, direct outside exhaust and signs. This is not permission throughout the venue. Employees are protected and under18s must be excluded from the smoking portion.

Applies in: South Africa

A restaurant may designate a smoking area under R975, limited to25% of total floor area with a solid partition, door, direct outside exhaust and signs. This is not permission throughout the venue. Employees are protected and under18s must be excluded from the smoking portion.

Applies in: South Africa

A genuinely open-air terrace falls outside the indoor/enclosed/partly enclosed public-place definition. Enclosed extensions remain subject to the indoor restrictions. The venue can prohibit smoking; this does not establish permission at an exact table.

Applies in: South Africa

Membership alone is not an exemption from the public-place or workplace rules. R975 defines a tobacco-selling smoking establishment, but the captured law does not establish that a particular membership club has that classification, a relevant licence or visitor access.

Applies in: South Africa

R975 permits a defined smoking establishment whose primary business is selling tobacco for consumption and related activities. An ordinary alcohol-led pub does not acquire that classification by calling itself smoking-friendly. Employee protections and under18 exclusions remain relevant.

Applies in: South Africa

Ordinary open streets are distinct from indoor or partly enclosed public places. Follow applicable site restrictions and signs; the Act’s power to prescribe entrance distances or outdoor places does not itself establish a particular numeric buffer or a citywide outdoor ban.

Applies in: South Africa