Tanda college to be tobacco free
Tribune News Service
Dharamsala, November 2
The medical college at Tanda will become the first tobacco-free institute in the state. Dr Sunil Raina, director for advancing tobacco control, in a press note issued here, said the sale of tobacco products would be banned within the college and up to 100 metres of its premises.
Students, teachers, staff members, patients or their attendants, who is seen consuming tobacco products, would be fined, as per the Tobacco Control Act, he said.
The college administration would appoint officers on the campus to implement tobacco control and impose fines on those violating the rules. He said people would be told that Tanda medical college was a tobacco-free zone and anyone found consuming or selling tobacco products in the area would be penalised.
