CIGARETTES AND OTHER TOBACCO PRODUCTS (PROHIBITION OF ADVERTISEMENT
AND REGULATION OF TRADE AND COMMERCE, PRODUCTION, SUPPLY
AND DISTRIBUTION) ACT, 2003
SMOKING IN PUBLIC PLACES: PROHIBITED
Murli S. Deora v. Union of India and Others
AIR 2002 SC 40: (2001) 8 sec 765: 2001 (8) SCALE 6: 2001 (6) ALT 35
Writ Petition (Civil) 316 of 1999
Dated: November 02, 2001
BENCH: Justices M.B. Shah and R.P. Sethi.
Realizing the gravity of the situation and considering the adverse effect of smoking on smokers and passive smokers, we direct and prohibit smoking in public places and issue directions to the Union of India, State Governments as well as the Union Territories to take effective steps to ensure prohibiting smoking in public places, namely:
(1) Auditoriums
(2) Hospital buildings
(3) Health institutions
(4) Educational institutions
(5) Libraries
(6) Court buildings
(7) Public offices
(8) Public conveyances including railways
Learned Attorney-General for India, assured the court that the Union of India shall take necessary effective steps to give wide publicity to this order of electronic as well as print media to make the general public aware of this order of prohibition of smoking.
We further direct the registrar-general to intimate the State Governments/Union Territories as well as the commissioners of police as mentioned in our orders dated 31- 8-2001 and 28-9-2001 of this Court with directions for submission of their compliance report in this Court within five weeks from today. The Union of India shall also file its response at the earliest.
