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Guidelines for Public Offices

Tobacco Free Offices All public offices and organisations are lawfully bound to comply with the statutory guidelines and must keep their premises/ compounds free from tobacco smoke. All work places, whether they have access to public or not, are by law to be smoke-free.

Violators are ciminally liable. The criminal provision of the law is guided by the penal provision of Section 4 which makes a person liable to fine of Rs 200; penal provison of Section 278 exposes a violator to a penality of Rs 500. However there are no limitations on the quantum of compensation and penality under the civil law. Any organisation or person who exposes his customers/ employees to second-hand smoke can be made to pay any amount of damages, as the court may deem fit.

It is expected that in their own interest, all responsible organisations should promote smoke-free policies for their own employees.

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Tobacco Facts

Because there is a lag of several years between when people start using tobacco and when their health suffers, the epidemic of disease and death (as it appears today) has just begun in this world. Millions are going to die due to tobacco.

100 million deaths were caused by tobacco in the 20th century. If current trends continue, there will be up to one billion deaths in the 21st century.
Unchecked, tobacco-related deaths will increase to more than eight million a year by 2030, and 80% of those deaths will occur in the developing world.