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UAE: ANTI-SMOKING LAW CALLS FOR PRISON AND MLN-DIRHAM FINES

(ANSAmed) - DUBAI, JANUARY 7 - The United Arab Emirates has prepared a number of new anti-smoking laws which provide for a prison sentence of two years and fines of up to a million dirhams (about 200,000 euros) for offenders. The most noteworthy aspects of the new laws include the ban on advertising, promoting or sponsoring any product associated with tobacco, as well as the outlawing of selling cigarettes to minors and smoking in vehicles in the presence of children under age 12. The anti-smoking plan, which aims to create a country entirely free of smoking, was introduced in 2007 with the first prohibition on lighting up in offices and public places. (ANSAmed).

Quelle: ANSAmed

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