The Government of Karnataka announced legislation that now prohibits the edges of hookah, and has increased the legal age for the purchase of tobacco products for 21 years. She also increased fines for violating these laws.
Previously, the legal age for the purchase of tobacco products in the state was 18 years.
The new law prohibits the sale of cigarettes or other tobacco products to a person under the age of twenty and also increased fines for smoking in a public place and to sell tobacco people aged 21 and below, from £200 to £1,000.
The announcement was issued on 30 May on cigarettes and other tobacco products (a ban on advertising and regulation of trade and trade, production, delivery and distribution) (Karnataka with News), 2024, who received the consent of the President on 23 May.
No tobacco in public places
A law that prohibits the use of tobacco products in public places, says no person must use tobacco products in any public place. According to the law, the “use” of tobacco is smoking and spitting tobacco.
However, in a hotel, which has thirty rooms or in a restaurant that has a capacity of thirty or more people and at airports, a separate provision of smoking or space can be made.
Forbidden bars of hookah
Section 4a of the Act prohibits opening or running the sticks of hookahs.
“No person will open or run any bar of hookah, at any other point, including a dining house, a pub, a bar or a bar, or a restaurant, behind any name called,” he said.
According to the law of “hookah” means a device or place where people collect to smoke tobacco or other similar products from a municipal hookah or Narghel, which is provided individually.
Regarding the punishment for running a hookah bar, the law says anyone is contrary to the provisions of section 4a, will be punished by imprisonment for a period that may not be less than one year but can extend to three years with a fine that must not be less than fifty thousand rupees but can be extended to one lakh.
“No person must sell, offer for sale or allow the sale of cigarettes or other tobacco products to anyone who is under twenty years. It cannot be sold in an area within a hundred meters of any educational institution; and cannot be sold freely or in individual chopsticks,” he added.
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