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Power to make rules STATEMENT OF OBJECTS AND REASONS In order to protect the non-smoking public from the hazards of passive smoking it is considered necessary to prohibit tobacco smoking, to start with atleast in a few selected places, like places of public work or use and in public service vehicles, where large number of people are present for prolonged periods. Promotion of smoking through advertisements needs to be discouraged and the health of the younger generation, particularly children, also needs to be protected from the ill- effects of tobacco smoking by prohibiting sale of cigarettes, etc., to persons below 18 years and sale, distribution or storing of such products within the premises of any Hospital, Health Institution, Public Office, Court, Library, Place of worship, College, School or other Institution. Hence the Bill. (L.C. Bill No. 3 of 2001) (Entry 6 of List-II of the Seventh Schedule to the Constitution of India) 2 KARNATAKA ACT 2 OF 2003 (First published in the Karnataka Gazette Extra-ordinary on the 10th day of March 2003) THE KARNATAKA PROHIBITION OF SMOKING AND PROTECTION OF HEALTH OF NON-SMOKERS ACT, 2001 (Received the assent of the president of India on the Twenty eighth day of February 2003) An Act to provide for prohibition of smoking in places of public work or use and in public service vehicles and for the protection of health of non-smokers in the State of Karnataka and to make provision for matters connected therewith or incidental thereto. Be it enacted by the Karnataka State Legislature in the fifty second year of the Republic of India as follows:-