Police and Tobacco Control officers have issued 9,851 summonses for smoking ban violations, seeing  6,635 court convictions. The ban was implemented January 1, 2007.

Secretary for Food & Health Dr York Chow told the Legislative Council today there are 226 cases left unsettled.

He said smoking is not punishable by prison sentences or community service orders as it is only a finable offence.

Meanwhile, the Government issued 6,353 fixed penalty tickets for littering in this year's first quarter.