The Future Melbourne Committee has endorsed the Smoke-free Melbourne policy at a meeting on 6 July 2021.

The endorsement of the policy comes after carefully considering all feedback from extensive community engagement that was undertaken from November 2020 to April 2021. Community engagement revealed strong support for a comprehensive approach to protect our community from the harms of smoking. Learn more about what we heard on the community consultation page.

The City of Melbourne will now begin developing an implementation plan to guide work across the four domains outlined in the policy which include:

• Protect our community from second-hand smoke and aerosol, and discourage and de-normalise smoking by creating more smoke-free areas and events.
• Educate and raise awareness of the harms of smoking, promote behaviour change and the benefits of quitting.
• Communicate, promote and increase awareness of our policy with a focus on people who smoke, those from diverse backgrounds or with additional needs
• Regulate smoking activities including the advertising and sale of tobacco and e-cigarette products

Read the final Smoke-free Melbourne Policy. You can also access the meeting notes and watch a livestream from the Future Melbourne Committee meeting.

We would like thank everyone who contributed to the development of the policy and provided feedback along the way.

We are proud to be creating healthy environments for our community.