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Text created by the government department responsible for the subject matter of the act to explain what the act sets out to achieve and to make the act accessible to readers who are not legally qualified. Scope of the act the act is applicable to all products containing tobacco in any form i. A, cigarettes and other tobacco products prohibition of advertisement and. The cigarettes and other tobacco products department of. Rules relating to prohibition on sale of cigarettes and other tobacco products to person. Act 32 of 2003 an act to prohibit the advertisement of, and to provide for the regulation of trade and commerce in, and production, supply and distribution of, cigarettes and other tobacco products and for matters connected therewith or incidental thereto. Pdf tobacco control law enforcement and compliance in odisha. The cigarettes or other tobacco products prohibition of advertisement and regulation of trade and commerce, production, supply and distribution act, 2003 or cotpa is an act of parliament of india enacted in 2003 to prohibit advertisement and regulation of tobacco business in india.

This act may be called the cigarettesand other tbacco products. In this regard, state health department has issued notification under section 20 of cigarettes and other tobacco products act cotpa, 2003. Pdf survey of compliance with the cigarettes and other. Cotpa 2003 and rules made thereunder national health mission. The main objective of this study is to assess the compliance of section 4 and section 6b of cigarettes and other tobacco products act cotpa, 2003 in schools, to observe compliance of smoking. Section 7 of cotpa bans sale of these products if they are traded, supplied or distributed without specified. Cotpa cigarettes and other tobacco products prohibition of advertisement and regulation of trade and commerce, production, supply and distribution act, 2003 cotpa is applicable to all products containing tobacco in any form i. Cigarettes and other tobacco products act wikipedia. Explanatory notes were introduced in 1999 and accompany all public acts except appropriation, consolidated fund, finance and consolidation acts. State government had banned the sale of loose cigarettes and tobacco under section 7 of the cigarettes and other tobacco products act, 2003 cotpa act, 2003.

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Punjab has become first state in india, to completely ban the sale of loose cigarettes even as single sticks and loose tobacco. Other tobacco products act cotpa promulgated in 2003 by the government of india, not only mandates ban on the sale of tobacco within a 100yard radius. Cigarettes and other tobacco products act copta act. An act to prohibit cotpa act 2003 advertisement of, and to provide for the regulation of trade and commerce in, and production, supply and distribution of, cigarettes and at tobacco products and cotpa act 2003 matters connected therewith or incidental thereto. Indian tobacco control act cotpa 2003 indore division.