In India, smoking is banned in public places, including in restaurants, bars and pubs. Public opinion is definitely for the ban. The cigarette smoke contains particulates and hundreds of organic chemicals which are known to cause cancer. The common types of cancers associated with the cigarette smoke are lung cancer and throat cancer. The smoke is harmful even if it is inhaled in a passive way – like non-smokers sitting in a room inhaling the cigarette (tobacco) smoke exhaled by the smokers.
In-spite of the ban, a report in the news paper reveals that only 64% of the restaurants, bars and pubs in Mumbai are complying with the ban and the rest are not able to. The particulate (2.5 micron size) concentration in the air varied from 55 (in bars/restaurants) to 707 (in Hookah bars) microgram per cubic meter of air. The Deonar Dumping ground area records the particulate concentration of 169 microgram per cubic meter of air.
Why the Mumbai Municipal Authorities are not able to crack down on the non-complying hoteliers and enforce the ban, and save the non-smoking customers from inhaling the air contaminated with these deadly pollutants?
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