Bill on tobacco control submitted to committee
| DATE: 2009-10-20 | PRINT | SHARE
The bill, proposed by the Government, was discussed by the Majlis members and passed with the approval of the 55 MPs who participated in the vote. There were 61 MPs in attendance when the vote took place and it was decided to send the bill to the social affairs committee.
Nearly all the MPs who spoke at the Majlis sitting agreed that the use of tobacco needed to be controlled and urged for the Bill to be passed swiftly and enforced. Although most MPs supported the legislation, many said that they felt that the provisions were too strict. The MPs said that he didn’t feel it was right to enforce such strict penalties in order to control the use of tobacco, and proposed a long term plan with milder penalties would be more successful.
Other MPs said that they felt the bill had been put together without doing adequate research, while others said that it seemed to have been drafted just for the sake of doing something.
| DATE: 2009-10-20 | PRINT | SHARE
The bill, proposed by the Government, was discussed by the Majlis members and passed with the approval of the 55 MPs who participated in the vote. There were 61 MPs in attendance when the vote took place and it was decided to send the bill to the social affairs committee.
Nearly all the MPs who spoke at the Majlis sitting agreed that the use of tobacco needed to be controlled and urged for the Bill to be passed swiftly and enforced. Although most MPs supported the legislation, many said that they felt that the provisions were too strict. The MPs said that he didn’t feel it was right to enforce such strict penalties in order to control the use of tobacco, and proposed a long term plan with milder penalties would be more successful.
Other MPs said that they felt the bill had been put together without doing adequate research, while others said that it seemed to have been drafted just for the sake of doing something.
