Smokers, sellers fined in Goa
27 February 2001 17:48 ISTSmokers beware ! You can be now actually fined up to Rs 5000, in Goa. Nevertheless, the same fate you would meet if you chew tobacco or even spit in public.Almost over one year after ... READ
Dear smokers, ask for receipt & claim cancer damage
10 April 2000 17:48 ISTInsist for a bill and preserve it. It's a call for all the smokers or those who chew tobacco or gutkha. Interestingly, it has come from none other than the National Organisation for Tobacco Eradication.If ... READ
Goa finally bans smoking from 26 January
25 January 2000 17:49 ISTAt last, the Republic Day dawns on Goa with restrictions on smoking or consuming tobacco as well as spitting in public places. The government has finally fully notified the Goa Prohibition of Smoking and Spitting ... READ
Sardinha disagrees with restriction on smoking in open
07 January 2000 17:50 ISTThe pioneering legislation to restrict smoking, consumption and sale of tobacco in public places is once again in a dock. The new coalition government led by Francisco Sardinha plans to amend it drastically, to allow ... READ
Govt delaying anti-tobacco act to come true
04 January 2000 17:50 ISTThree years have passed now and the legislation banning public smoking and promoting tobacco products is just not taking off, simply because the state government is now dilly-dallying over notifying the respective provisions."There is no ... READ
Smoking ban to begin with awareness campaign
02 October 1999 17:51 ISTA three-prone strategy has been chalked out by the government to implement the legislation regarding ban on smoking and spitting in public places, beginning from today.With prime thrust on public awareness, the crackdown on tobacco ... READ
Smoking is a crime in Goa !
01 October 1999 17:52 ISTThe last Gandhi Jayanti of the century would be worth remembering for Goans or all those lakhs of tourists, who will start flocking to the tiny coastal state from this month.Enjoying the beaches, temples, churches ... READ
Smoke, spit, urinate under cover
21 September 1999 17:52 ISTIt's not only in Rome you have to do as Romans do. Even in Goa, from the auspicious day of Gandhi Jayanti now, you have to do as Goans do. Otherwise find yourself behind the ... READ
Come to Goa, but No Smoking, please!
11 September 1999 17:53 ISTEnjoy Goa, ah, but be careful ! No smoking, spitting or chewing tobacco in public places now. You may simply lose thousands just paying the fines.Of course, the amount of fine - which ranges between ... READ
"Let beedi workers starve" : Anti-smoking front
31 July 1999 17:54 ISTThe beedi workers as well as tobacco growers should find alternate avenues of earnings, feels National Organisation for Tobacco Eradication, while welcoming the Kerala high court’s landmark judgement banning smoking in public places.In fact the ... READ
