SC sets aside orders on restriction
of tobacco products in hotels
New Delhi: The Supreme Court Monday
allowed sale of tobacco products, including hookahs, in eating joints and
quashed circulars issued by civic bodies in various states banning their sale
in such premises.
The apex court set aside judgements of
various High Courts which had allowed municipal bodies to put stringent
conditions on sale of tobacco products while implementing the Cigarettes and
other Tobacco Products (Prohibition of Advertisement and Regulation of Trade
and Commerce, Production, Supply & Distribution) Act, 2003.
A bench of justices Ranjan Gogoi and R
F Nariman said the condition is bad inasmuch as it does not allow the licensee
to keep or sell or provide any tobacco or tobacco related products in the
licenced premises.
"It will be noticed that Section 6
of the Cigarettes Act permits the sale of cigarettes and any other tobacco
products, except to persons under 18 years of age and in an area within a
radius of 100 yards of any educational institution.
"It is clear that any condition which prohibits the
sale of cigarettes or any other tobacco products in premises licenced by the
Municipal Corporation would amount to adding another exception which would be
impermissible in law," the bench said while setting aside the order of the
Madras, the Bombay and the Gujarat High Courts which had allowed restriction on
sale of tobacco products.
Source: www.zeenewsindia.com/health
09.12.2014
President Pranab Mukherjee calls for
serious thought on health care system
Kolkata: In the wake of rising heath
cost, President Pranab Mukherjee today called for a serious thought on nature
of healthcare system.
"A thought that should seriously
engage our attention today is the nature of health system that we ought to have
in our country - a commercial, profit-driven system or a system conversant with
socio-economic conditions prevailing in our society."
Speaking at inauguration of 150-bed
facility of Institute of Neuroscience, Mukherjee said an institution like this
have a pivotal role.
Mukherjee said with socio-economic
change effecting joint to nuclear family this caused greater dependence on
private healthcare leading to higher pocket expense.
The President, who called for revamp in
health insurance system to take care of special needs of the aged, underscored
on greater public awareness as immunisation has been found effective in
preventing neuro infection.
Mukherjee also emphasised on
inexpensive intervention through primary healthcare system for many
neurological disorders.
"As
per reports 70 per cent of epileptic patients could be treated with
Phenobarbital but 80 per cent of epileptic patients in low income countries
remain untreated," he said.
Source: www.zeenewsindia.com/health
09.12.2014
Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear
and the blind can see
Mark Twain
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