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Delhi & Mumbai to be smoke free by 2009 MIL/Agencies, Apr 27, 2007. New Delhi, April 27, 2007 - Union Health Ministry is reported to have decided to to turn Delhi and Mumbai smoke free. The govt. is strict to apply the ban by 2009. "Both cities are expected to prohibit smoking in public places, including workplaces, by 2009. We want to protect the people from the harmful affects of secondhand smoke," said Bhavani Thyagarajan, Joint Secretary in the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare. Though under the anti-tobacco laws, smoking in public places is banned, the government wants to ensure that the act is strictly enforced. "Airports and restaurants could add separate rooms for smoking," she said. Making the announcement at the first-ever journalist 'boot camp' on cancer and tobacco, she said the new measure means Mumbai should be smoke-free by the time it hosts the 2009 world conference on tobacco or health, one of the world's foremost conferences on tobacco control. "The Commonwealth games are set in Delhi in 2010. We are hopeful that we will be able to implement the law strictly by this time in the two cities," she said at the event organised by the American Cancer Society (ACS) and the US centres for disease control and prevention foundation. The central government is talking to the two state governments for ensuring that the laws are implemented. According to pat felts, the ACS Deputy Chief Operating Officer, similar initiative of making Washington D C smoke-free was taken by the cancer control community last year when the international conference was held there. Central government is already planning to set-up a regulatory authority for the effective implementation of anti-tobacco laws.
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