Smoking ban

Quality:

Smoking ban - public policies, including criminal laws and occupational safety and health regulations, that prohibit tobacco smoking in workplaces and other public spaces. Article “Smoking ban” in English Wikipedia has 80.2 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 189 references and 31 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 8.91 points.

In this language version of Wikipedia the article has the best quality. Also, this article is the most popular in that (English) language version.

In June 2025 the article “Smoking ban” was edited by 6 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 8 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Smoking ban”, its content was written by 1056 registered users of English Wikipedia (5666^th place) and edited by 2496 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 644 times in English Wikipedia and cited 2450 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #135 in January 2005
• Global: #752 in January 2005

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #12958 in April 2008
• Global: #5812 in January 2008

There are 22 language versions for this article in the WikiRank database (of the considered 55 Wikipedia language editions).

The quality and popularity assessment was based on Wikipédia dumps from July 1, 2025 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

The table below shows the language versions of the article with the highest quality.

#	Language	Quality grade	Quality score
1	English (en) Smoking ban		80.1768
2	German (de) Rauchverbot		79.8446
3	Chinese (zh) 禁煙		76.9768
4	Arabic (ar) حظر التدخين		71.9786
5	Dutch (nl) Rookverbod		71.8587
6	Russian (ru) Запрет на курение		68.8087
7	Armenian (hy) Ծխելու արգելք		57.53
8	Czech (cs) Zákaz kouření		44.1153
9	Ukrainian (uk) Заборона куріння		38.8175
10	Croatian (hr) Zabrana pušenja		38.3315

The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Smoking ban		3 647 713
2	German (de) Rauchverbot		1 465 015
3	Japanese (ja) 禁煙		755 796
4	Dutch (nl) Rookverbod		604 610
5	Italian (it) Legge antifumo		597 993
6	Russian (ru) Запрет на курение		460 037
7	French (fr) Interdiction de fumer		344 740
8	Chinese (zh) 禁煙		260 698
9	Swedish (sv) Rökförbud		257 255
10	Arabic (ar) حظر التدخين		227 942

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Smoking ban		5 766
2	Italian (it) Legge antifumo		1 351
3	Japanese (ja) 禁煙		1 047
4	French (fr) Interdiction de fumer		929
5	German (de) Rauchverbot		847
6	Chinese (zh) 禁煙		824
7	Arabic (ar) حظر التدخين		606
8	Dutch (nl) Rookverbod		518
9	Indonesian (id) Larangan merokok		513
10	Russian (ru) Запрет на курение		421

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Smoking ban		1 056
2	German (de) Rauchverbot		631
3	Dutch (nl) Rookverbod		180
4	Japanese (ja) 禁煙		101
5	Chinese (zh) 禁煙		89
6	Russian (ru) Запрет на курение		68
7	Italian (it) Legge antifumo		61
8	Czech (cs) Zákaz kouření		53
9	French (fr) Interdiction de fumer		45
10	Swedish (sv) Rökförbud		42

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Smoking ban		6
2	German (de) Rauchverbot		1
3	Chinese (zh) 禁煙		1
4	Arabic (ar) حظر التدخين		0
5	Czech (cs) Zákaz kouření		0
6	Danish (da) Rygeforbud		0
7	Persian (fa) ممنوعیت استعمال دخانیات		0
8	French (fr) Interdiction de fumer		0
9	Croatian (hr) Zabrana pušenja		0
10	Armenian (hy) Ծխելու արգելք		0

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

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