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Smoking ban: The economics behind it, and more!
October 3, 2008
Excerpt from the official notification on ban
The owner, manager or whoever is in charge of a public place shall ensure no person smokes there. A board as specified in the rules should be displayed prominently at the entrance of the public place.
This board shall be of a minimum size of 60cm by 30cm of white background.
It shall contain a circle of no less than 15cm outer diameter with a red perimeter of no less than 3cm wide with a picture, in the centre, of a cigarette or beedi with black smoke and crossed by a red band.
The width of the red band across the cigarette shall equal the width of the red perimeter.
The board should contain the warning: ‘No smoking area smoking here is an offence.
This should be in English or one Indian language.
In case the public place has more than one floor and entrance, the board should be displayed at each entrance and floor.
No ashtrays, matches, lighters or other things designed to facilitate smoking should be provided in the public place.
Whoever is in charge of the public place shall notify prominently the names of persons to whom complaints about violation of the smoking ban can be made.
If the person in charge fails to act on a violation he or she should pay a fine equivalent to the total fine imposed on the offenders.
Image: A child carries a anti-tobacco poster | Photograph: Deshakalyan Chowdhury/AFP/Getty Images
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