GYM 2009 » Promoting Smoke Free Vehicles

Ban on Smoking in Public Places

Ms. Shachi Saluja — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 16:34:32 +0000

In India section(4) of The Cigarettes and other Tobacco Products Act, 2003 prohibits smoking in public places. Any violation of this Act is a punishable offence with fine upto Rs200.

Public place as defined in the Act and the rules means any place to which the public has access whether as of right or not and includes all places visited by general public and includes:

*Auditorium
*Hospital Buildings
*Health Institutions
*Amusement Parks
*Restaurants
*Hotels
*Public Offices
*Court Buildings
*Educational Intitutions
*Libraries
*Public Conveyances
*Open Auditorium
*Stadium
*Clubs
*Hookah Bars(where smoking takes place)
*Railway Stations
*Bus stops
*Workplaces
*Shopping Malls
*Cinema Halls
*Refreshment Rooms
*Discotheques
*Coffee Houses
*Pubs
*Bars
*Airport Lounge

But public place does not include open space example parking space, roads, open market places, parks, private homes etc.

To promote tobacco free schools it has been suggested to include ‘Tobacco Control in the Cirriculum at all Levels’. All educational institutions have beenm directed to display ‘No Smoking Area’ at the entrance

Shachi Saluja
DLDAV Model School
Pitampura
Delhi

Campaigning for Smokefree Cars in Massachusetts

Alejandra — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 00:33:37 +0000

Last fall, members of Ignite Wellesley campaigned for legislation to ban smoking in cars with children, which had already been introduced in the Massachusetts House and Senate. We did a public awareness campaign near the Boston Commons in which two of us wore a cardboard cutout of a car with the fact “1900 Infant Deaths from Secondhand Smoke Each Year” on the side. Others passed out bright yellow informational palmcards, and asked people to sign a petition in support of the legislation.

As part of the same project, we wrote letters to our local State Representative Alice Hanlon Peisch and State Senator Scott P. Brown explaining the importance of the legislation and asking for their support. Representative Peisch met with us at our school to discuss that legislation and other anti-tobacco issues, and expressed her support. Our college’s newspaper, the Wellesley News, wrote a story about our meeting.

Though the legislation was not passed (at least not before I left), our efforts raised awareness of the issue among both politicians and the general public.

Yes, we attracted a lot of attention...

Tobbaco kills !! Your voice can save.

admin — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 06:22:03 +0000

Dear Friend,

For years, people who wanted to speak out against tobacco have remained silent because they never knew where to voice their opinions.

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