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Article: New Delhi smokers coughing mad as city boss bans their fix
- Article from:
- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- January 27, 1997
- Author:
CopyrightCopyright 1997 The Independent - London. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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Smokers in New Delhi are having a collective nicotine fit. Ever
since the Indian capital's chief minister, Sahib Singh Verma, made
it his New Year's resolution officially to ban tobacco in public,
smokers have been savouring their last legal puffs at the office
and plotting how they can get through a normal day without lighting
up in view. The ban started yesterday, and violators risk paying up
to a 500 rupee (pounds 10) fine, equivalent to a week's average
wage, if they are caught.
Elderly men, who often while away the winter afternoons by
pulling their rope beds into a patch of sun in the alley and
passing around a hookah, accosted Mr Verma in anger to demand that
their tradition be ...
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