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Guidelines for Tobacco Shops and Dealers

Tobacco Dealer As the harmful effect of tobacco have come to light, tobacco has moved from being a legal product to a partially legal product. It is a movement towards declaration of tobacco as a contraband product.

Selling and/or trading in tobacco is now legal to the extend that if it is manufactured, traded, marketed and sold within the legal parameters defined by the legislation.

As a minimum, all tobacco shops, dealers/distributors must display a board of minimum size of sixty centimetres by thirty centimetres at conspicuous place(s) containing the warning “Sales of tobacco products to a person under the age of eighteen years is a punishable offence”, in Indian languag(s), as applicable.

No tobacco shops, dealers/distributors can sell tobacco product to any person less than 18 years of age.

No shop can operate within 100 yards of any educational institution.

There can be no advertisement or promotion of any tobacco product; whether written or oral. Whether direct or indirect.

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Tobacco Facts

Tobacco use is one of the biggest public health threats the world has ever faced.

There are more than one billion smokers in the world.
Globally, use of tobacco products is increasing, although it is decreasing in high-income countries.
Almost half of the world's children breathe air polluted by tobacco smoke.
The epidemic is shifting to the developing world.
More than 80% of the world's smokers live in low- and middle-income countries.
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