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Smoking is injuries to health!!But Who cares

- by M Lokeswara Rao 12 Sep 2008
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Category: Lifestyle
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Smoking is injurious to health!!!! But who cares?

Smoking is injurious to health, but for some chain smokers, smoking is a pleasure and habit. Supreme Court has banned smoking in public places yet you can see some smoking zone where people can go and have a pleasure of puff. Supreme Court also imposed fine and imprisonment on employer who allows his employee to smoke, but these measures were not yielded much result.
"According to a WHO study, around 14.1 per cent of school going children are using some or the other form of tobacco."

Recently, Minister for Health Ramdoss has announced that you can not smoke public or private places, government offices, shopping malls, airports, railway stations and even in your own home, you have to take permission of your wife, family members and children, if you want to smoke in your own house. Minister for Health Ramdoss permitted to smoke on the road.

This policy will be implemented from October 2 onwards. Mahatma Gandhi Jayanthi Day. Very ambitious proposal, but how far the government will achieve non-smoking India. It is experience in past that in India there are many good laws but when it comes to implementation there is no proper implementation of law. Government has good intention that the citizens should have good health, away from diseases like cancer. Any law can be properly implemented unless there is proper enforcement force, nothing can be imposed and people should be educated first the dangers of smoking. Until then the laws will be on paper. The ban from the day coinciding with Mahatma Gandhi's birth anniversary would also cover hotels, restaurants and offices. "Though in the beginning, the fine would be only Rs 200, we will try to amend the act in the future, after which the fine can be increased to Rs 1,000 and the employer can also be fined if somebody is found smoking within the office premises in accordance with the National Tobacco Control Act. To begin with, the pictorial warnings would be those cleared by the Group of Ministers and would cover 40 per cent of the product covers, but after around one year, more pictures can be brought in” according toMinister of health Ramadoss said.


Next time, if you want to smoke you have to walk near by road from October 2 onwards, so that every one who goes on road knows that you are smoker and you had bad habit, with that guilty feeling, at least you may give up smoking, that may be the reason and idea of Minister for Health Ramdoss, has allowed citizens of India to smoke on the road.
India there are innumerable law but implementation of these law are tardy.your health is in your hands you can decide whether you want to smoke or not.

Is road is not a public place? This is the matter for debate!!!!!!!

Mahatma Gandhi is happiest person to see smoke less India from October 2 onwards. Can we achieve this???



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Bhaskar - Hyderabads on 6/27/2009 12:34:37 PM
sir, I consider the Smoking habit as a ''index of personal irresponsibility" which is injurious to Not only his personal but also family health and societal health as well.
 
Tina - Mumbai on 10/2/2008 1:11:42 PM
well said rachel...i agree wid u...why is the government wasting their time on such matters. they wasted time by having laws on "no litterin" " no spitting" and what happened to those laws??? first they should work on the previous bans and then think of implementing new ones. who said that smokers would feel an ounce of guilt by smoking on road...infact they would prove to b a rather bad example to kids around. those who want to smoke will smoke wherever they can and no one can stop them, unless the manufacturing companies of tobbaco shut down. take care
 
Rachel - Mumbai on 10/2/2008 1:07:52 PM
does any one really knw that whether Mahatma Gandhi smoked or no???? decide people??? ban gutkha, alcohol, supari and other forms of tobbaco first an then lets move to ciggarettes. did u know that tobbaco generates the highest amount of revenue for our country...ban the sales and then talk about ban on smoking...that would help the smokers quit easily...and well said lakshmi........
 
Lakshmi - chennai on 9/14/2008 7:21:37 AM
Well, laws are being made, rules are being made. How many really follow the rules? Even if fines are to be levied on such offences, it is not helpful since the law makers are most of the time law breakers. A RBI approved note stuffed into their hands and off they go turning a blind eye to every thing that has to be corrected.
 
VIPin - VadodrA on 9/13/2008 2:57:55 PM
DaM ! surw The above said Law was not going to be followed by smoers of ou india.....
 


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