Ban on smoking
It sounds very impressive. After all, nobody expected that such concern for public health would be demonstrated by the government. The ban on smoking in public places and transports is all the more necessary in a country where most people do not have the slightest regard for others. They will smoke on your face and will react violently at the slightest peep of protest. They do not even bother about the presence of children or women in a bus or any other public transport.
So the ban was necessary. But the question is, how can it be enforced? The risk of people being harassed unnecessarily is always there. The only way to make things work is to create awareness among the people regarding the law and its enforcement. There should be no ambiguity in the language.
Finally, I would congratulate the government for clamping the ban, but at the same other sources of pollution must be eliminated for the benefit of people in general.
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