Excise commissioner asked to check illicit trade of tobacco

The Punjab Health Department today asked Excise and Taxation department to become active partner in its fight against menace of tobacco in the state and launch a coordinated drive against illegal hookah bars and those establishments flouting anti-tobacco acts. In a communiqué to the Financial Commissioner, Excise and Taxation, Principal Secretary Health Ms. Vini 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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