70% of foreign violators pay smoking fines: Taipei official

More than 70 percent of foreign tourists who receive fine tickets for smoking in no-smoking areas have paid up, even though they are not legally binding, officials of the Taipei City Department of Environmental Protection said Tuesday.

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