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Cloud over hookah trade licence

Police are planning to recommend the civic body to cancel the food and trade licence of hookah bars violating the Cigarette and Other Tobacco Products Act.

LELIN MALLICK Published 14.11.17, 12:00 AM

Bhubaneswar: Police are planning to recommend the civic body to cancel the food and trade licence of hookah bars violating the Cigarette and Other Tobacco Products Act.

This was mooted after the police conducted raids on around 10 hookah bars at Saheed Nagar and Infocity late Sunday evening.

The police said a few such bars were found selling hookahs containing nicotine bringing those under the purview of the act.

"While most of the joints claimed to sell herbal hookahs, we found nicotine in it. We have also seized products from the joints and sent them for laboratory examinations to find out the truth behind the nicotine-free hookah," said deputy commissioner of police, Bhuba-neswar, Satyabrata Bhoi.

On November 6, the municipal corporation also conducted raids on four hookah bars at Saheed Nagar.

The police said if the joints were found to be selling nicotine-free hookah, those could not come under the act.

"But if the nicotine presence is found, these joints will be regulated according to sections 4 and 6 of the act," said a police official.

Section 4 of the act prohibits smoking of any tobacco product in a non-smoking zone. Section 6 of the act prohibits sale of any other tobacco product to any one below the age of 18 years and an area within a radius of 100 yards of any educational institutions.

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