Anti-tobacco drive: Rs 6.73 lakh collected as fine in 6 months

Under an anti-tobacco drive, the Kanpur district administration has collected Rs 6.73 lakh in last six months as fine from people for smoking at public places.
Teams are conducting raids regularly at various public places across the city including bus stations, outside schools and colleges, railway stations, hospitals, malls and cinema halls, ADM City Ashutosh Agnihotri said here today.
Till now, 7,281 people have been fined, he said, adding that up to a maximum of Rs 200 was being collected from the defaulters.
"Our mission is to stop youth from using tobacco products and for that we have removed cigarette shops from near all the schools and colleges," he said.

The health department has also started a consultancy clinic at Ursula Hospital in the city to advise people on how to get rid of tobacco addiction.
Chief Medical Officer Dr Ramayan Prasad said that tobacco consumption has been prohibited in all the hospitals of the city.