Kathmandu, December 13
The selling, consumption and transaction of tobacco products have been prohibited in the Kathmandu Metropolitan City area from today.
The City’s Health Department Chief Ram Prasad Poudel said a complete ban has been imposed on the sale of tobacco products in the metropolis’s 32 wards.
According to him, the selling, storage and consumption of tobacco products packed in plastics have been completely prohibited within the city today.
The banned products include raw tobacco, chewing tobacco, bidi, sulpha and panparag, packaged in plastic pouches.
The City issued a public notice regarding this ban on November 28.
The City Police will take such products if any shop is found selling them.
“We are on a campaign to make Kathmandu a healthy city. We have decided to ban the storage, selling and use of tobacco-based products harmful to people’s health and the environment, coinciding with the 29th KMC Day,” said the KMC Health Department Chief Poudel.
Tobacco control is the first condition for improving the public health and environment in the city. The City is preparing to implement a programme to control hukka in the second phase.
The City had banned the consumption of tobacco products in public places from September 17.
