The Prime Minister, Dr. Jafar Hassan, directed today, Sunday, the Ministry of Health and relevant authorities to tighten control over all establishments, activate Article 63 of the Public Health Law, and close establishments that are found to be providing hookah or selling or providing tobacco products to those under the age of eighteen, and hold establishments that are found in violation fully responsible.
The directive comes in light of the practices observed in some establishments, their violation of the law, and the provision of hookah services or the sale or provision of tobacco products to those under the age of eighteen; which poses a direct danger to the health of children and adolescents, and contributes to encouraging them to start using tobacco products and exposing them to health hazards, and in accordance with the provisions of Chapter Twelve of the Public Health Law No. (47) of 2008, related to protecting public health from the harms of smoking.
