The public places where the ban would come into effect include state and government bodies, offices and institutes, educational institutes, airport, airlines, public vehicles, child welfare centers, child rehabilitation center and club, public toilet, industry and factories.[break]
Anyone smoking at a public place will be expelled from the place or fined Rs 100 or both. If such an individual happens to be a government official, s/he will faced departmental action.
Similarly, those producing and selling tobacco and the tobacco-related products must abide by the rule of printing the negative effects of the tobacco extensively (75 percent) on the tobacco and cigarette packets, so that consumers are aware of the disadvantages of smoking.
Similarly, the selling and distributing agencies also must make consumers aware that smoking is injurious to health.
Nepal Cancer Relief Society and various other government and non-government organizations had been advocating against smoking in public places for the past 26 years. It has finally been put into practice in legal terms.
Consumption of the tobacco-related products claims a Nepali every 30 minutes in Nepal.
According to School-Level Education and Smoking Control Programme Coordinator, Sundar Thapa, 90 per cent Nepalis afflicted with lung cancer got the disease due to smoking.
Medical Consultant Satya Gurung said 25 types of diseases including cancer, heart disease, asthma and diabetes are caused by the consumption of tobacco-related products, which carry more than 4,000 deleterious chemicals like nicotine, tar, carbon-monoxide, lead, nitrosomine.
It is said 35 million people meet untimely death due to the diseases caused by the consumption of tobacco-related products.
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