Artificial beaches
The new tobacco laws ban smoking at artificial beaches. These beaches are particularly popular with families and children.
Since 1 January 2005, smoking is illegal at certain artificial beaches between sunrise and sunset. The ban covers the entire beach, as there are usually no red and yellow flags to mark the boundaries for safe swimming.
The artificial beaches that are no-smoking zones are:
- Streets Beach – South Bank (Brisbane)
- Settlement Cove Lagoon (Redcliffe)
- Airlie Beach Lagoon (Airlie Beach)
- Rockpool (Townsville)
- Esplanade Lagoon (Cairns)
For details on this new law go to the Tobacco and Other Smoking Products Act 1998.
This page last updated:
July, 2006
Review date: October 2006
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