No smoking in public

India banned smoking in public places on Thursday in an attempt to fight against tobacco use blamed for a fifth of all deaths in the world's third-largest consumer. The ban includes all offices, restaurants, schools, colleges, pubs, discotheques, hospitals and bus stops. Offenders will be fined 200 rupees if found smoking in any of these places. This will hit its estimated 240 million tobacco users, half of them younger than 30 years, who are likely to find their homes and cars among the last few places to light up. The government cites the economic costs and the need to stem the loss of human lives but tobacco firms say the ban infringes on individual rights. According to the Indian health minister, Anbumani Ramadoss, the country is in the grip of smoking, which is likely to cause 1 million deaths a years. Past attempts to ban spitting and urinating in public in India drew little success, and the impoverished and lawless northern state of Bihar has already expressed reservations about the practicalities of implementing the ban. Not everyone is happy with the ban. Many say a lack of smoking rooms mean they would be deprived of a stress busting puff in offices and other public places.

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