Evaluation of No Smoking Area Policies in Makassar City Rini Anggraeni 1 , Novi Angraini 2 , Erva Novitasari 3 {rinianggraeni@unhas.ac.id 1 , ervanovitasari@gmail.com 2 , novinovi.nagmail.com 2 } Faculty of Public Health Hospital Management Universitas Hasanuddin 1 Public Health Hospital Management Universitas Hasanuddin 2,3 Abstract. Control of cigarette smoke in public places is a solution to maintain health that is possible by arranging regulations for no-smoking areas. The aim of the study was to determine the implementation of Makassar City Regional Regulation No.4/2013 focusing on non-smoking areas in Makassar City hospitals. The method of the research was qualitative with phenomenological design. This research was conducted in two hospitals, were RSI Faisal and RSUD Kota Makassar with the total of nine informants for each hospital selected through snowball sampling technique. Data collection was in the form of in-depth interviews and observations, and data analysis used content analysis. The results at RSI Faisal showed that the implementation of Makassar City Regional Regulation was not optimal, yet due to less commitment of the involved actors, no flow of coordination in the regional regulations and lacking in discipline of the hospital supervision. The research discovered that there was no maximum socialization and communication from the government on no smoking areas regulations in Makassar. The informants did not know the contents of the regional regulations, but they understand the rules of no smoking area and the implementation in the hospital. Conclusion, policymakers should apply socialization of Makassar City Regional Regulation No. 4 of 2013 on no smoking area. All implementers have to committed, and coordinate based on the explanation in the regional regulations. The supervision also must be strict and set sanctions who violate. Keywords: Policy, Tobacco, hospital. 1 Introduction Smoking has now become a lifestyle for most people in various circles. Cigarettes that are sold freely on the market are one of the products with a relatively high level of consumption in the community. Nearly 6 million people die each year from cigarette consumption and exposure to cigarette smoke and account for 10% of all deaths [1]. According to the WHO report on world cigarette consumption, smoking prevalence rates in Indonesia are among the highest in the world, with 71.8% of men and 4% of women aged ≥15 years classified as smokers (WHO, 2015). The average number of cigarettes consumed by people in South Sulawesi per day is 14.6 cigarettes [2]. One of the efforts to overcome the health problems caused by cigarette smoke or the wrong smoking behavior is needed by community empowerment activities or programs that can protect passive smoking. The activity is to form an area that is free of cigarette smoke [3] In reality smoking rooms or smoking areas with air ventilation have been scientifically proven to be ineffective in protecting passive smokers from the carcinogenic effects caused by people smoking in the ICER-PH 2018, October 26-27, Makassar, Indonesia Copyright © 2019 EAI DOI 10.4108/eai.26-10-2018.2288959