Smoking is treated with more acceptance throughout The Pacific than it is in Australia and New Zealand but attitudes are starting to change a bit with designated no smoking areas in many resorts and restaurants. You may even see health warnings on cigarette packets. On the other hand, in Fiji, you may even come across cigarette advertising.
Samoa is taking a healthy approach to smoking with billboards advertising its shortcomings. Having said that, bars have ashtrays on the tables for patrons. But if your room has an ashtray in it, please do the next guests a favour and use it on your balcony.
In Vanuatu they have caught up with health warnings on cigarette packets, and in the three official languages, so a pack may come with the warning in English that ‘smoking causes heart disease’, and, in French, that ‘l’usage du tabac est une cause importante de cardiopathie’ and, in Bislama, that ‘ sigaret i kosem sik blong hat’ (literally, ‘cigarette causes sick belong heart’).