GUWAHATI, July 21 � After the passage of the Anti-tobacco Bill in the Assembly, the Assam Government is now planning to bring in a new legislation to curb manufacture and sale of all forms of smoking products in the State.
�Our first aim is to implement the Anti-tobacco Bill for all forms of smokeless products. After this, our next mission is to ban smoking tobacco...One day we will ban smoked tobacco also,� Health and Family Welfare Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said.
He, however, did not give a timeframe on introduction of the Bill to ban smoking tobacco saying, the government at first wants to be successful in implementing the �Assam Health (Prohibition of Manufacturing, Trade, Advertisement, Storage, Distribution, Sale and Consumption of Zarda, Gutkha, Panmasala etc. Containing Tobacco and/or Nicotin) Act, 2013�. � PTI
