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Article 10 The places for selling tobacco products shall, at conspicuous locations, post the warning images and texts required by Paragraph 2 of Article 6, Paragraph 1 of Article 12 and Article 13; the display of tobacco products or tobacco product containers shall be limited to the necessary extent in allowing consumers to acquire information on brand names and prices of the tobacco products. The scopes, contents and methods of the posting and the displaying required by the preceding paragraph, as well as other matters need to be observed, shall be prescribed by the competent authority at the central government level. Article 11 No business premises shall provide customers with free tobacco products for the purpose of promoting or profit-making. Chapter 3 The Prohibition Of Smoking By Children, Minors And Pregnant Women Article 12 Persons under the age of eighteen shall not smoke. Pregnant women shall not smoke. The parents, guardians or other people actually in charge of the care of persons under the age of eighteen shall forbid the said persons to smoke. Persons under the age of eighteen shall not smoke. Pregnant women shall not smoke. The parents, guardians or other people actually in charge of the care of persons under the age of eighteen shall forbid the said persons to smoke. Article 13 No person shall provide tobacco products to persons under the age of eighteen. No person shall force, induce or use other means to cause the pregnant woman to smoke. Article 14 No person shall manufacture, import or sell candies, snacks, toys or any other objects in form of tobacco products. Chapter 4 Places Where Tobacco Use Are Restricted Article 15 Smoking is completely prohibited in the following places: 1. Schools at all levels up to and including high schools, children and youth welfare institutions and other places the main purposes of which are for educations or activities of children and youth; 2. Indoor areas of universities and colleges, libraries, museums, art galleries, and other places where the culture or social education institutions are located; 3. The places where medical institutions, nursing homes, other medical care institutions, and other social welfare organizations are located, with the exception of separate indoor smoking partitions equipped with independent air- conditioning or ventilation systems or outdoor areas of the welfare institutions for the elderly; 4. Indoor areas of the government agencies and state-owned enterprises; 5. Public transportation vehicles, taxis, sightseeing buses, rapid transit systems, stations or passenger rooms; 6. Places for the manufacturing, storage or sale of flammable and explosive items; 7. The business areas of banks, post offices and offices of telecommunication businesses; 8. Places for indoor sports, exercises or body-buildings; 9. Classrooms, reading rooms, laboratories, performance halls, auditoriums, exhibition rooms, conference halls (rooms) and the interior of elevators; 10. Indoor areas of opera houses, cinemas, audio-visual businesses, computer entertainment businesses, or other leisure entertainment locations open to the general public; 11. Indoor areas of hotels, shopping malls, restaurants or other business locations for public consumption, with the exceptions of those locations equipped with separate smoking partitions with independent air-conditioning systems, semi-outdoor restaurants, cigar houses, bars and audio-visual businesses which are only open after 9:00 pm and exclusively to persons beyond 18 years of age; 12. Indoor workplaces jointly used by three or more persons; and 13. Other indoor public places, as well as the places and transportation facilities designated and announced by the competent authorities at various levels of the government. The places mentioned in the preceding paragraph shall have conspicuous non-smoking signs at all of their entrances, and shall not supply smoking-related objects. According to the provisio of paragraph 1 subparagraph 3 and 11 related to indoor smoking rooms, the room area, facilities and installation shall be stipulated by the central competent authority. 145 Appendix