Telangana - No more Hookah Parlours
The telangana government has enacted a measure outlawing hookah parlors in the state, citing the harmful consequences of hookah as being more harmful than cigarettes. Under the leadership of chief minister A revanth Reddy, the Legislative Affairs minister D sridhar Babu proposed the cigarettes and Other Tobacco Products (Prohibition of advertisement and Regulation of Trade and Commerce, Production Supply and Distribution) (Telangana Amendment) Bill, 2024. The Legislative Affairs minister explained the purpose and rationale for the bill, stating that telangana needed to outlaw hookah parlors right away due to the harm they are doing to the state's youth.
According to the minister, hookahs pose a greater risk than cigarettes. It has an impact on smokers as well as those who smoke in silence. The minister claimed that young people and college students were turning into junkies and that the event planners were taking advantage of this by drawing them into the chaos. According to him, 200 hookah puffs were 100 times more dangerous than a cigarette. The bill was approved without debate.
Explaining the ill effects of hookah, which are more dangerous than the cigarettes, the telangana government on monday passed a bill.
Explaining the ill effects of hookah, which are more dangerous than the cigarettes, the telangana government on monday passed a bill.