Workers declared that Government approved the smoking ban in working places for to tease them. That’s why they are very anger and can’t accept this legislation. So, from February 1, employees will be banned from smoking during work hours. The federal Department of Health and Ageing this week introduced a ban on workers which like to take regular smoking breaks and more bosses wanted to follow this suit.

Almost all smokers, including a 35-year-old city administration worker, said that this move is discriminatory.

"It's not actually fair, there's already limitations on breaks as it is but not yet on if you smoke or not," a smoker explained.

But the federal Department of Health and Ageing declared that workers would only be permitted to smoke during designated meal breaks and not within 15m of the edifice.

This recent anti-smoking move is designed to meliorate the professional reputation of the office and improve employees' health too.

Terry O'Gorman, Queensland Council of Civil Liberties delegate said that he was abused by the ban, which he characterized as an unjustified action into worker privacy.

"It's only inadmissible encroaching into the private lives of every person. It's a step that is fully unwarranted," he explained.

But Action on Smoking and Health Australia spokesman, Stafford Sanders, said that the country's three million smokers took about five 10-minute cigarette breaks a day, and costing businesses millions of dollars.

So, he considers that smoking breaks are a productivity issue for employers not for their company or bosses.

But Queensland Chamber of Commerce president David Goodwin declared that while banning cigarette breaks was difficult to do, employees should act responsibility when avoiding the office or a smoke.

He considers that employees should decide alone to quit smoking or continue to have smoking brakes.

Unlike smokers, anti-smoking campaigners are hopeful that this new policy will be the first step towards a nationwide ban on public servants taking cigarette breaks.