The month-long drive yielded penalty amounting to ₹67,020More than 600 persons were booked for smoking in public, mostly in roadside tea stalls, in Mysuru during a month-long drive against cigarette and other tobacco products. The Mysuru District Tobacco Control Cell, which carried out the drive along with the assistance of local police, booked 606 persons for smoking in public and collected penalty amounting to ₹67,020. Thirteen shops or points of sale were booked for selling cigarettes and other tobacco products within a radius of 100 metres of an educational institution. The signages seek to warn the public against smoking in public places and sale of cigarettes to minors. The Mysuru District Tobacco Control Cell will next week begin an enforcement drive in the taluks of Mysuru district, he added.

Source: The Hindu August 10, 2021 08:20 UTC