17 September 2019Rugby World Cup 2019 Organizing Committee, Public interest incorporated foundation
Mr. Mitarai Fujio, Chairperson
Mr. Katsunobu Kato, Minister of Health, Labor and Welfare
Mr. Daichi Suzuki, Director General of Sports Agency
Mr. Manabu Sakuta, Chairperson, Japan Society for Tobacco Control, General incorporated

Requests for tobacco control at the 2019 Japan Rugby World Cup
The following problems currently exist.
1) Installing indoor smoking areas is not tolerated according to international athletic standards because theygenerate passive smoking.

It also violates the national revised Health Promotion Act, created partly forinternational events like the Rugby World Cup.

We request that any and all indoor smoking areas beremoved immediately.
2) Accepting donations from tobacco companies to create outdoor smoking areas is a serious violation of theWHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC) that was signed by Japan.
3) Installing outdoor smoking areas in Type 2 facilities must conform to safety standards according to theHealth Promotion Act, and in particular, must protect stadium spectators from passive smoking with morethan mere fences.
4) Please immediately block the use of smoking areas and ashtrays.
Chronicle
As citizens who love sports, we are looking forward to competitive matches at the Rugby World Cup, aninternational sports event held from 20 September 2019.

The world’s top rugby players will be active in 12 cities

for matches and more than 40 cities for training camps, attracting 2 million spectators and 400,000 tourists fromaround the world.
Rugby is a gentleman's sport, and international norms are that athletes do not smoke and that practice venues
and match venues are non-smoking. Will Japan's Rugby World Cup deviate from this international standard by
allowing active and passive smoking?
For large (international) sporting events, the WHO requests adequate passive smoking protections.

Therevised Health Promotion Law has also been in effect at the national level since July 2019 to protect against
passive smoking at events like the 2019 Rugby World Cup. At the local government level, Kanagawa Prefectureand Hyogo Prefecture have implemented separate regulations to prevent passive smoking in public spaces.
Because playing sports seems incompatible unhealthy smoking, national and local governments want to promote
public health at public events by eliminating passive smoking.

At last year's soccer World Cup, the match venue imposed a complete ban on smoking. But images ofinternational football star Diego Maradona smoking at the venue, which displayed a large banner for no smoking,were broadcast around the world.
the session.

Due to condemnation, he returned to his home country during the middle ofBecause smoking areas were set up inside the venue for media and guests this year, the current

situation would likely continue the embarrassment and criticism from last year.
The Health Promotion Act has recently been revised, and a preface “for purposes of the Rugby World Cup in
September 2019” was attached when the act was first implemented.

But the executive committees for eachstadium at the Rugby World Cup are currently counteracting the goal of hosting healthy sports “hospitality” andeffectively denigrating the image of rugby as a sport.

In contrast, Mitarai Fujio, the Rugby World Cup executive

committee chairman at Canon Incorporated, has made proactive efforts for all employees and visitors to stopsmoking, and Vice Chairman Morikirō Fuku has argued that smoking cessation is a global movement.

But asleaders from private enterprises and governments, the members of the organizing committees should explain therationale for policies that violate the international treaties on tobacco control and World Health Organization
recommendations.

Moreover, we are concerned that a major advertising agency acting on behalf of tobaccocompanies has used its influence to hinder international protocols against smoking.
For the Rugby World Cup, many international rugby supporters come to Japan for sports tourism. Partly topromote tourism in their jurisdictions, local governments like in Saitama Prefecture and Yokohama City have also
issued their own policies to promote smoking cessation. Thus, national and local regulations have become
sufficiently strong to reduce passive smoking, but the Rugby World Cup executive committee should understandthat these regulations must be observed for their benefits to be realized.
Hosting the Rugby World Cup allows Japan to promote sports, but to promote health more generally it musttake measures against passive smoking according to the national revised Health Promotion Act and localregulations.

Hosting the event properly can show the world that Japan is indeed a healthy place to live and toplay sports.
A survey of 12 match venues by the Japan Society for Tobacco Control revealed that indoor smoking areas,
which are not allowed by the national Health Promotion Act and municipal regulations, have been installed, as
well as outdoor smoking areas.

Obviously, both types of smoking areas result in passive smoking.

Moreover,some facilities installed smoking areas with contributions from tobacco companies. This is a serious violation ofArticle 5 (3) of the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC), which prohibits corporate social
responsibility (CSR) activities by tobacco companies. When we asked the managers of the grounds about thesesmoking areas, they answered that the organizing committees had decided to install them.
The Japanese Society for Tobacco Control identified the following number of smoking areas at the World Cupvenues:
Indoor smoking site

Outdoor smoking site

Sapporo Dome

42

Kamaishi Housing Reconstruction Stadium

05

Kumagaya Rugby Field01

Tokyo Stadium

824 (6)1 (separated by a wall)

Toyota Stadium

02

Higashi-osaka Flower Park Rugby Field

02 (no separation)

Kobe Noevir Stadium

12

Hakatanomori Football Stadium

01+1

Kumamoto Sports Park02

Oita Sports Park and Integrated Stadium

02

Yokohama International Stadium
Ogasayama Sports Park

We found that indoor smoking rooms were set up at one third of the World Cup match venues, and outdoor
smoking areas were set up at almost all venues.
Indoor smoking areas are prohibited by national regulations, and in cases of outdoor smoking areas, it isnecessary to verify whether the outdoor smoking area satisfies conditions to prevent “unwanted passive smoke”,
that is, whether a wall exists, and if so, whether it is at least 15 meters away from walkways and seats.
We close by saying that current measures are far from international, national and local standards against
passive smoking, and request that the smoking areas on the premises not be allowed at the 12 Rugby World Cup
match venues and the 40 training camp venues that will soon host guests. We also request that the use of ashtrays
and smoking areas already installed be blocked.
Yours sincerelyReferences

The WHO and the IOC have reached an agreement
スポーツのメガイベントであるオリンピックやワールドカップの開催地では、受動喫煙対策を取るように世界保健機構（WHO）や国際オリンピック連盟（IOC）が求めています。
The World Health Organization (WHO) and the International Olympic Committee (IOC) request that thevenues for the Olympic and World Cup sports events take measures against passive smoking.
（http://www.nosmoke55.jp/action/olympic.html

http://www,nosmoke55.jp/action/1202olympic.pdf ）。

The goal of this agreement is to allow people to reduce lifestyle-related diseases at all ages.

Smoke free areas.
Smoke free facility (6) requirements.
Smoke free. No tobacco smoke residue.
No selling of tobacco products.
No tobacco advertising, sales promotion or sponsorship.
It is prohibited to bring lighting instruments like disposable (peep) lighters, matches, et cetera into cooking areas.
List of facilities that should be smoke free (This list is not exclusive.)•Event facilities, facilities where the public can enter, bars, restaurants, cafes, other dining service facilities.

•Athletes, participants and others who reside in sponsored sports villages, particularly in indoor andoutdoor areas like bedrooms, living rooms and dining areas.
•Facilities used by people other than players and staff such as public transportation to the media center,hotel, airport and event sites.

•Seating areas, side pathways, main thoroughfares, waiting areas.

•Stadiums, arena tents, training grounds, walkways•

All facilities related to events or displaying event symbols (hotels, restaurants, transportation facilities, etcetera)

The no smoking event guidebook says that facilities used by players, staff, spectators, media, sponsors, guests andothers should be smoke free.
At the 2018 Russia football World Cup, the venue was completely non-smoking, and a large non-smoking bannerincluding or electronic vaporizers was posted at the venue. Yet, Argentinian soccer superstar Diego Maradonasmoked a cigar while viewing a match in the stadium, and this image was broadcast all over the world.

Due tocondemnation for his behavior, Mr. Maradona had to return to his home country during the World Cup.

References
1. The installation of smoking areas at the World Cup Rugby arena
http://www.chunichi.jp/aritcle/front/list/CK2019083002000275.html
https://www.nikkei.com/article/DGXMZO49286990S9A900C1CR0000/
Outdoor smoking areas at Rugby World Cup venues compared with Olympics venues (Chunichi Shimbun, Nihon
Keizai Shimbun)“A spectator blows tobacco smoke at the stadium’s smoking area. Opening in September, the Japan Rugby World
Cup tournament will have an outdoor smoking space set up at each match venue, places where you can smoke
tobacco.

But as regulations are strengthened, the match venues at the Tokyo Olympics-Paralympics next year

will adopt a policy of a complete smoking ban on the premises.

Authorities have also announced that they ‘arelagging behind the trend of banning smoking’”.
https://www.zakzak.co.jp/soc/news/190820/dom1908200007-n1.html

Where is the spirit of “hospitality”?

Measures “to separate smoking from non-smoking behavior” at the Rugby

World Cup diverge from those at the Tokyo Olympics
2. Information from the revised Health Promotion Act for hosting the Rugby World Cup
2-1. <Prime Minister Abe> announces measures against passive smoking at the “Rugby World Cup Vision”(Mainichi Newspaper 6 October 2016) regarding the revised Health Promotion Act that imposes penalties on
public facilities and restaurants that violate the law.

Prime Minister Shinzo Abe stated at the House ofCouncilors Budget Committee on the 6th that “we continue to examine legislative measures for hosting the 2020
Tokyo Olympics-Paralympics and the 19th Rugby World Cup” in response to a question by Mr. Narufumi
Matsuzawa (no affiliation).

The International Olympic Committee and the World Health Organization (WHO)are requesting a “smoke free” host city (without tobacco) for the Olympics-Paralympics, but there are currently
not sufficient restrictions in Tokyo.

Mr. Matsuzawa noted that “for the 18th (previous) World Cup to havesufficient time to publicize the knowledge of the law, it would need to be enacted by the 17th World Cup” andfurther replied that he “wanted to prepare immediately so that the regulations will be reliable and effective".
2-2. Olympics Minister Marukawa, Passive smoking “measures even for the Rugby World Cup” June 6, 2017
Asahi
https://headlines.yahoo.co.jp/hl?a=20170606-00000037-asahi-pol
https://notobacco.jp/pslaw/asahi1706063.htm(Regarding the possible postponement of the bill to strengthen measures against passive smoking) Tokyo will
host the 2020 Olympic-Paralympic Games, as well as the 19th Rugby World Cup.
sufficient measures against passive smoking for both occasions.

It is important to take

The Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare

continues its effort to submit bills in this joint effort. (at an interview after a cabinet meeting)
2-3. Complete smoking ban from July 2019 at schools, hospitals and other institutions in preparation for theRugby World Cup (Sankei newspaper) 2018.12.18 https://www.sankei.com/life/news/181218/lif1812180040n1.html From the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare on 18 July.

The government decided to start

implementing complete indoor smoking bans at schools, hospitals, government offices and other facilities on 1July 2019. This plan was presented to the Liberal Democratic Party's Welfare Labor Committee and approved
with the aim of implementing it by the opening of the Rugby World Cup in September of that year. The
government initially planned to implement the revised Health Promotion Act, which also strengthens measuresagainst passive smoking, in the summer of 2019, but the implementation date has not yet been determined.
[statement written in 2018]
2-4. Complete outdoor smoking ban at the Tokyo Olympics venues, including for heated tobacco and nicotine
vapor 2019/2/28 Nikkei (Nihon Keizai Shinbun)

https://www.nikkei.com/article/DGXMZO41878530Y9A220C1CC1000/
https://notobacco.jp/pslaw/asahi190228.html2
3. Information from local governments that are taking advanced measures against passive smoking for the WorldCup
The policies of Kanagawa Prefecture to strengthen measures against passive smoking in match venues and public
placeshttp://www.pref.kanagawa.jp/docs/cz6/cnt/f6955/documents/913654.pdf
Smoking ban promotion of Kumagaya City
http://www.city.kumagaya.lg.jp/about/soshiki/shimin/kenkodukuri/oshirase/judoukituentaisaku.html