Government plans to ban tobacco ads on TV
ISLAMABAD- The government is considering to ban cigarette advertisements on television from morning till midnight as a first step towards implementing the anti-smoking ordinance, claims Dr Zafar Mirza, executive coordinator of The Network for Consumer Protection.
Expressing reservations about the recently implemented anti- smoking ordinance, he said the government should not consider the revenue since this money was “stained with the blood of the Pakistani people”.
There was nothing remarkable in the ordinance to congratulate the government about, he said adding that the enforcement of ordinance was decided only a day earlier and yet it failed to fully enforce ban on tobacco advertisements and place restrictions on smoking at the public places.
He also expressed dissatisfaction over the prohibition on the sale of cigarettes within 50 meters of an educational institution and criticized the government for not placing comprehensive ban on the advertisements of cigarettes on all type of media.
Source: Dawn
Date:7/2/2003
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