New Delhi, June 01: A total of 20,405 people and 3,200 vendors were fined for smoking in public places and selling tobacco in restricted areas in the capital from April 2010 to March 2011.
They were fined Rs.1.8 million by the government, Delhi Health Minister A.K. Walia said Tuesday.
Speaking on the World Tobacco Day, Walia said: “The Delhi government is committed to the cause of protecting people from tobacco that continues to be the second major cause of death, disease and disability.”
The minister stated that Delhi was the first state to enact the Delhi Prohibition of Smoking and Non Smoker’s Health Protection Act 1996 and the Cigarettes and Other Tobacco Products Act, 2003.
Walia said around 3,000 people died every day due to tobacco use in India.
–IANS–