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Cigarette smoking, though banned in public, is not something adhered to by people all the time. Putting up signs in public places has made it easier for those who do not smoke to nudge people and tell them not to do so in that location as well.
The cigarette boxes to come with graphic images and advertisements are banned. Even after these measures, there are 13,000 Indian men and 4,000 women dying every week due to chronic tobacco usage, making it an issue of public emergency.
It is true that the problem has barely been got under control and that is insignificant, but nevertheless, when smoking in public was banned in 2008, the tobacco industry hit a little bit of a setback.
The ban of cigarettes completely would close down one of the major exporter industries in our country and inevitably cause losses in the Indian economy.
267 million people are tobacco consumers. 800 million kgs of tobacco produced in the country. 0.24% of the country’s land is used for this purpose.
We know that whenever something is banned it can be illegally obtained but even then its access to common man diminishes to near zero availability. It is the risk the country can take, a ban that would probably drive millions crazy with their excessive urge to smoke but they would get through it.
Cigarette smoking, though banned in public, is not something adhered to by people all the time. Putting up signs in public places has made it easier for those who do not smoke to nudge people and tell them not to do so in that location as well.
The cigarette boxes to come with graphic images and advertisements are banned. Even after these measures, there are 13,000 Indian men and 4,000 women dying every week due to chronic tobacco usage, making it an issue of public emergency.
It is true that the problem has barely been got under control and that is insignificant, but nevertheless, when smoking in public was banned in 2008, the tobacco industry hit a little bit of a setback.
The ban of cigarettes completely would close down one of the major exporter industries in our country and inevitably cause losses in the Indian economy.
267 million people are tobacco consumers. 800 million kgs of tobacco produced in the country. 0.24% of the country’s land is used for this purpose.
We know that whenever something is banned it can be illegally obtained but even then its access to common man diminishes to near zero availability. It is the risk the country can take, a ban that would probably drive millions crazy with their excessive urge to smoke but they would get through it.
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