From: Our Special Correspondence: Eastern Chronicle 24×7: 29th August, 2024.
SMOKER’s under 30 , need photo identification- FDA says in U. S.
The United States, Food & Drug Administration has mandated people must ‘Show’ Photo Identification, when buying tobacco products. As the health regulator raised, the Age verification requirement by three years.
As part of the rule in U. S. Food & Drug Administration now require retailers to verify the age of anyone under 30 years.
The FDA also said, Retailers canot sell tobacco or tobacco related products through Vending Machines in Places, where individual are below 21 of age.
Tne United States in a process to cracking down on the use of tobacco and it’s related products from past few years to curb the un preventable diseases and deaths caused by smoking, as well as stop of use of e-mail cigarette into minors.
From decades science has shown that keeping tobacco products away from youths is difficult to reducing the numbers of addicted people by these products.
similarly, in India, as a mostly populated Country such types of initiative should be taken, then immatured deaths caused by taking tobacco and it’s related products, Cancer the disease can prohibited.
