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Tuesday, September 14, 2010
Mandals steer clear of tobacco companies
Publication: Hindustan Times, Edition: Mumbai/Pune, Journalist: Aarefa Johari, Page No: 4, Location: Top-Right, Width(cms): 25, Height(cms): 23, Size(sq.cms): 575
Mandals steer clear
of tobacco
companies
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Mandals steer clear of tobacco companies
RESHA
GANDHI
Act of 2003 bans direct adver- before the start of the festival
tising of tobacco products in this year.
Aarefa Johari
public places, the advertising "We appealed to them not to
■ [email protected]
of surrogate products by
advertise any surrogate
tobacco companies is not yet tobacco companies, and so far
MUMBAI: This year for the illegal.
have received only positive
first time pandals in the city "This is the first year that we reports."
do not host any banners of
have registered a complete suc- Smoke-Free Mumbai
companies that sell tobacco
cess in our efforts to curb
Campaign has organised a
products, said the
these ads," said Naresh
'Smoke Free Ganesh Mandal'
Ganeshotsav organising
Dahibawkar, president of the competition to boost the cause
committee.
Samiti, which had 50 of its
this year.
The Ganeshotsav Samanvay volunteers touring the city to Dr Surendra Shastri, chairSamiti said that this means
inspect the sponsor banners of person of the organisation
that the pandals have refused more than 12,000 city pandals. said, "Ganesh mandals are
any sort of sponsorship from Dahibawkar and his team held steering clear of sponsorships
these companies.
special meetings with repfrom these companies, so the
While the Tobacco Control resentatives from all pandals achievement
is commendable."
Though registrations for the
contest are not very high, at
least 50 pandals have agreed
to participate by putting up
detailed Marathi banners
about the law banning
smoking in pub-lic places.
"Mandals taking up antitobacco activities such as local
drawing competitions will be
judged by our health
educators," said Mayuri
Sawant, commu-nications
manager for Smoke-Free
Mumbai.
Registrations for the competition are still open.
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