The health ministry plans to draft a law to make local governments design health promotion plans to prevent diseases related to smoking and other vices, ministry officials said Friday.
The Health, Labor and Welfare Ministry plans to submit the health promotion bill, as it is tentatively being called, to the Diet during the session that kicks off Jan. 21.
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