MPs get a room to smoke, activists tell Speaker it breaks your law
August 06, 2015 09:24
A designated smoking area for MPs inside Parliament has raised the hackles of anti-tobacco activists.
A health institute involved in fighting against tobacco has written to the Lok Sabha Speaker saying the definition of a public place as laid down in the anti-tobacco Act would include Parliament, hence the decision to allow MPs to smoke violates the law.
"As per Section 4 of the Act smoking in all public places is prohibited since October 2008," says the letter to Sumitra Mahajan, referring to the Cigarettes and other Tobacco Products Act 2003.
"The definition of 'public places' provided under section 3(1) of the Act read along with Rule 2(d) of the Prohibition of Smoking in Public Places Rules 2008 (2008 rules), includes workplaces as well, thus Parliament House comes under the purview of public places under the Act."
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