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A university in Japan has it will no longer teachers who . Nagasaki University said it wants to a healthier environment for its workers and students. The university's president Shigeru Kono said: "Our job as a university is to after our staff. We feel we have to them from smoking." Many companies have also not recruiting smokers. Mr Kono said there would a ban on smoking anywhere in the university by teaching and other staff from August. In addition, staff and students will be from taking cigarettes and lighters into any areas of the university from April 2020. Approximately eight per cent of the university's professors and teachers smokers.

The no-smoking policy by Nagasaki University is part of a growing trend in Japan to smoking in public spaces. There are currently bans in many public places, including restaurants and bars, in the lead-up to the 2020 Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics. There many areas of Tokyo and Kyoto in which people cannot on the streets. The number of people in Japan who smoke on the decline. In 1966, 49 per cent of adults , including 84 per cent of men. Last year, 18 per cent of adults smoked, including 28 per cent of men. One company in Japan is to get its staff to smoking by extra days off to employees who did not smoke. Several staff soon the habit.