The capital of Finland Helsinki was declared a smoke-free city in January 2007. Smoking is banned in all workplaces, and in 2011 the city of Helsinki was awarded the best smoke-free workplace in Finland. No designated smoking areas are arranged indoors. Employees are strongly and in a positive manner encouraged to quit.
Helsinki's Tobacco Control Programme for 2007 - 2015 (Savuton Helsinki) has been prepared and is primarily aimed to prevent youth smoking initiation and exposure to passive smoking. It is also very important to get adult smokers to decrease or quit their smoking.
Helsinki aspires to intensify the collaboration of different tobacco control networks and administrative branches to develop tobacco control policies even further.
