India: Tobacco Ad Display Invites Health Department''s Ire

Source from:  The Times of India  12/10/2012

In a drive against commercials of tobacco products in the city, the health department on Friday confiscated the advertisement/display material outside the Harry Hyperstore in Sector 26. The store was found to be violating Section 5 of COTPA rules wherein no such propaganda of cigarette brands is permitted.

Dr Deepak Bakshi, nodal officer, tobacco control cell, UT, said the store had displayed cigarette packs right at the entrance and there was a big advertisement and boxes of a cigarette brand. All the material was confiscated by the officers of Sector 26 police station.

The team also found two vending carts bearing the advertisement of the cigarette brand in the corridor which the vendors had abandoned. They disappeared on seeing the action being taken at the store. Enditem