Mahajan asks Excise & Tax dept to fight against tobacco menace
Punjab’s Principal Health Secretary, Vini Mahajan today asked Excise and Taxation department to become an active partner in the fight against tobacco menace. The Punjab Health Department has asked the Excise and Taxation department to launch a coordinated drive against illegal hookah bars and those establishments flouting anti-tobacco Acts. In a communique to the Financial Commissioner, Excise and Taxation, Mahajan asked him to issue instructions to field staff of excise and taxation department to ensure that the tobacco products manufactured and packaged must depict the notified pictorial health warning. She said that this way the illicit manufacture and trade of tobacco products could be checked to a large extent.
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