A Malaysian lawyer, Mohamed Haniff Khatri Abdulla, is challenging the government's new smoking ban on workplaces by seeking an exemption for his law firm. He insists on maintaining a designated smoking area within his office, arguing that he has the right to smoke as long as it doesn't affect others.
Lawyer Mohamed Haniff Khatri Abdulla has filed a suit to challenge the health minister’s new smoking ban on all workplace buildings in Malaysia as he wants his law firm exempted. Haniff, a self-described “hardcore smoker,” wants his law firm to remain a designated smoking area, asserting that he should have the right to smoke in his own office as long as it doesn’t affect others.
The lawyer – who has represented several high-profile people like former two-time prime minister Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad – said that he had informed his employees, sent emails to his clients, and posted a notice outside his office about the continued status of his firm as a smoking area, despite the government’s ban. “The firm’s management has set a fair mechanism where employees and/or clients and/or the public who choose not to work and/or handle their personal matters in a smoking area, can choose to take alternative steps,” he said in his filing to the High Court here yesterday in which he named the Malaysian government and health minister as defendants. He added that he has offered his employees appropriate compensation should they decide not to continue working there to avoid exposure to the smoking, and said his clients have been told that they could transfer their files to any other law firm or lawyer. Haniff, who said he has been a hardcore smoker since he was 21 years old in 1986 and smokes three packs a day, argued that smoking has been legally permitted in Malaysia for decades and is not a criminal activity. He said he believed that smoking “is not a criminal office and/or banned in Malaysia” except for in certain legal provisions which make smoking in certain areas an offence
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