Smoking Banned !!!
As per the new rule, smoking is banned in public places and workplaces in India. The exact details of the rule is yet to be finalized - what will be the amount of fine, details of categorizing public places etc will roll out in a couple of days. There was a mail sent out to employees in my company that smoking is not allowed within the campus. All smoking zones were missing from the campus this morning. Shortly there will be notice boards all around the campus indicating the same ...
We all have been hearing from media about this news.
Not sure whose brainchild this rule is, but i certainly cannot digest this new rule. There a group of people in favor of this rule, and another group not in favor of this rule.
One of the shop owners who sells cigarrates had removed the lighting device at her shop in fear of this new rule, but however did not stop selling cigarrattes !!! weird, atleast for me ...
I was reading in one of the newspapers, where in a viewer had recommended 3 months simple imprisonment for people violating the rule ..give me a break !! 3 months simple imprisonment for smoking in public !!!!! what ever ...
a) Why are workplaces being targetted as public places ? As long as there are dedicated smoking zones, i do not understand the need for categorizing workplaces as public places ...
b) With this new rule as a citizen of this country, am i not free to run a restuarant/cafebar with smoking in place ? Well i believe this should be a choice of the owner who owns the place to decide whether his restuarant/cafe is "SMOKING-ONLY" or "NON-SMOKING" area. As long as it is advertised properly this should not be of concern to general public.
If we have the freedom to own just a normal "Resturant" or a "family bar and restuarant", then we should still have the freedomw of "family smoke-bar and restuarant" too ...
c) What are we achieving by imposing a ban on smoking and making it difficult for the restuarants/cafe/smokers !! If your answer is "smoking is injurious to health" and so this ban is good, then people ...why dont you get to the root of the problem and ban manufacturing/sale of any tobacco based product which is known to be injurious to health ? Why not categorize cigarrates/gutka as DRUGS and arrest people involved in either manufacturing/selling/consuming the same ?
People should have the freedom to decide whethere they want to remain "smokers"/"non-smokers". It MUST not be forced upon people. Its a choice which people themselves have to make.
I am not against this rule completely ....Yes, if you are categorizing "Bus-stops" as non smoking zone, i am for it. It does cause inconvinience to the general public. But definitely smoking in a designated area in cafes/workplaces or smoking at a restuarant which has put up proper sign boards informing the public clearly that it is a smoking area is a fair deal...
Not sure, if our bengaluru international airport has any smoking rooms, if yes i guess they will also have to be removed as well !!!
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I think all this is just to control smoking as much as possible - not really to cut it off everywhere.
Also the cigarettes and packs are supposed to have much larger disclaimers than the tiny one right now - not sure what's happening with that.
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