Health activist and a victim of passive smoking, Nalini Satyanarayan said that exposure to passive smoking happens in designated smoke rooms in eateries.
Hyderabad: Members of various youth associations from Hyderabad and other parts of the country have urged the union Government to amend Cigarettes and Other Tobacco Products Act (COTPA) to protect the youth from falling prey to the menace of tobacco products. While appreciating the government for initiating the process to amend COTPA 2003, they appealed […]
Hyderabad: Chairman of National Commission for Protection of Child Rights, representatives from retailers’ association, global and local experts have appealed to the Government of India to strengthen the national tobacco control law in order to protect the youth from taking up tobacco use. The experts urged the government that increasing legal age of sale of […]
Former Indian badminton player P Gopichand in the release also urged the Central Government to introduce amendments in COTPA in order to save the youth of the country
Hyderabad: In the 12 years of the implementation of smoke free rules, more than Rs 37 crore has been collected as fines from people for violating the no-smoking rules. A total of 26,16,050 people were fined during the period 2007-08 to 2020-21 (upto June 2020), a press release said. Smoking was banned in all public […]
