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Smoking Cigarette - No MoreThe "Cigarette and Other Tobacco Products Act (COTPA)" clearly provides that it's a punishable offence to smoke in any public place. Tobacco control law requires full participation and cooperation of people in general. The success of smoke-free policies around the world depend on the active participation of the people.

Not only should every person (addicted to smoking/ tobacco) desist from smoking in any public place, but every responsible citizen too should take care that no one else also smokes in any public place. Any violation must be reported to competent enforcement agency.

DEFINATION OF A PUBLIC PLACE?

Any place visited by the public and/or a place where public has access, whether as of right or not is defined as a public place. This means even a "private retiring room" of a Judge; any common area in a cluster housing complex; all offices/areas (open to public) whether owned by government or private commercial organization comes within the defination of public place.

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smoke-free-public-placeThe law provides that the hotels and restaurants be free from any kind of tobacco smoke.

Hotels and Restaurants are the places where people come for leisure, enjoyment and for unwinding.  Customers don't get happy to be exposed to poisonous and cancer causing gases. No customer would like to come to a place which is likely to increases his/her risk of disease and disability.

People come to have good healthy and hygenic food in good ambience. Keeping the indoor environment clean, hygenic and healthy is the responsibility of the Hotels and Restaurants.

Good hotel and restaurants are in the business of promoting health; providing healthy food and ambience. Such Hotels/ Restaurants/ Recreation centres will never expose their customer to something which cause disease, disability and death.

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tobaccofreeindia-50Any School/ College/ Institutes or any other educational institute, recognized or registered with any government body (Empowered to affilate/ recognise), comes within the definition of educational institute.

As a minimum, all educational institutes must adhere to the tobacco control law. It is expected that educational institutes regularly conduct activities to sensitise the youngsters on the tobacco issues.

Every educational institute must display a warning board outside the educational school/ college/ institute/ university stating that “Sale of Cigarette and other tobacco products in an area within a radius of one hundred yards of the educational institution is strictly prohibited.” 

Non display of the board constitutes offence under Section 6 of the Act read with rule 3(1) of "Tobacco Products Act (Display of Boards by Educational Institutions) Rules, 2009."

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Smoke Free Offices

No person (employee/ employer /customer) is allowed to smoke inside any office or within the compound of a public office/ place/ workplace.

The guidelines for private organisation/offices and the Government/Public offices are almost the same. All guidelines as applicable to public offices are also applicable to private offices and organisation.

Any place visited by the public whether owned by government or private commercial organization comes withn the defination of public place/ workplace and thereby smoking is not allowed.

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Tobacco DealerAs the harmful effect of tobacco have come to light, tobacco has moved from being a legal product to a partially legal product. It is a movement towards declaration of tobacco as a contraband product.

Selling and/or trading in tobacco is now legal  to the extend that if it is manufactured, traded, marketed and sold within the legal parameters defined by the legislation.

As a minimum, all tobacco shops, dealers/distributors must display a board of minimum size of sixty centimetres by thirty centimetres at conspicuous place(s) containing the warning “Sales of tobacco products to a person under the age of eighteen years is a punishable offence”, in Indian languag(s), as applicable.

No tobacco shops, dealers/distributors can sell tobacco product to any person less than 18 years of age.

No shop can operate within 100 yards of any educational institution.

There can be no advertisement or promotion of any tobacco product; whether written or oral. Whether direct or indirect.

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Tobacco Facts

Q. What are the economic impacts of tobacco use?

A. The epidemic poses a long-term economic threat to countries and may slow their development. Tobacco negatively affects the welfare of users and costs the world hundreds of billions of dollars each year in lost productivity. If the epidemic worsens, the economic losses in highly populated developing countries will be severe. Many of these countries are manufacturing centres for the global economy and the growing number of tobacco-related deaths - half of which occur during prime productive years - will impose a heavy burden on these economies.

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