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Smoking outside metro station comes at a price

| Thursday | 10th January, 2019

“Passive smoking is equally harmful and contributes to 10% of all deaths. But now police personnel have asked to take action not just against those smoking right outside the station but also in the parking areas. All metro stations, he pointed out, are tobacco-free zones and ‘No Smoking’ boards are displayed prominently everywhere.Around 19,000 die annually in Delhi due to tobacco-related diseases. The police can help reduce this by stepping up implementation of the COTPA.”“Like the railway police, the metro police will also take action against smokers who subject non-smokers to passive smoking,” said the DCP. As per Global Adult Tobacco Survey 2016-17, nearly 30% of the adults in Delhi are exposed to passive smoking in public places, and 17.3% of them inhale second-hand smoke in public transport.

NEW DELHI: Witnessing an increase in the number of people smoking right outside the metro stations , the police have started cracking down on such commuters by fining them up to Rs 200 Delhi Metro Police said only a negligible number of violators were fined in the last few years, making people believe that no action would be taken against them. But now police personnel have asked to take action not just against those smoking right outside the station but also in the parking areas. In the last one week, 10 people have been fined.The police are also raising awareness among them about the health hazards of smoking.DCP (metro) Dinesh Kumar Gupta said, “Delhi Metro Police is strictly implementing the anti-tobacco law on the metro station premises by penalising violators.” All 16 metro police stations are part of the drive launched by Delhi Police. “The metro has 236 stations and around 28 lakh people commute by it daily,” an official said.The metro staff have been sensitised about various provisions of Cigarettes and Other Tobacco Products Act (COTPA) 2003 and the health hazards of tobacco use in a workshop by Sambandh Health Foundation, an NGO. “Smoking causes 90% of lung cancers,” an oncological surgeon said at the workshop. “Passive smoking is equally harmful and contributes to 10% of all deaths. The police can help reduce this by stepping up implementation of the COTPA.”“Like the railway police, the metro police will also take action against smokers who subject non-smokers to passive smoking,” said the DCP. All metro stations, he pointed out, are tobacco-free zones and ‘No Smoking’ boards are displayed prominently everywhere.Around 19,000 die annually in Delhi due to tobacco-related diseases. As per Global Adult Tobacco Survey 2016-17, nearly 30% of the adults in Delhi are exposed to passive smoking in public places, and 17.3% of them inhale second-hand smoke in public transport.

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