India Embraces Smoke-free Policies on Ghandi's Birthday...What About Liberia?

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India Embraces Smoke-Free Policies on Gandhi’s Birth Anniversary
By: Bobby Ramakant (Guest Writer)
India has boldly enforced the smoke-free policies banning smoking in public places and private areas with public access from 2 October 2008 – the birth anniversary of the father of nation Mahatma Gandhi. The government of India and countless people who have been advocating the enforcement of public health policies need due credit. It was certainly not so easy, more so because of the financially robust, strategically shrewd tobacco industry that has mastered the art of circumventing public interest policies and promoting a product (tobacco) that kills even when used as intended by the manufacturer.
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