Women under 40 years old to buy cigarettes ban

Women younger than 40 years old and mothers in front of their young children may stop selling cigarettes. Such a bill considered today the State Duma. It is assumed that the violators will be fined in the amount of 3 to 5 thousand rubles, and shops, violate the prohibition - up to 150 thousand rubles.

It has been almost a year since all tobacco products hidden out of sight for a special screen. On each of them - large print sign: "Only persons over 18 years." When will the new anti-smoking law, it probably will be drawing silhouette of a girl, a sign of "40+" and any stroller, suggest sellers of tobacco departments. If minors among buyers is not difficult to calculate, the women in the area of ​​forty will be more difficult.





"I think it's stupid, they will still even after their husbands to buy or ask quietly - anyway they will buy," - Catherine speaks Nosov, the seller of tobacco. Sellers tobacco was told that men in the number of customers more than women. Mothers with children also come, but opened the eyes of a child to buy cigarettes shy, basically they assign children - candy to choose and quickly choose cigarettes.

Eighteen months ago, on cigarette packs started printing frightening images. According to sellers, buyers often do not pay any attention to them.

Another detail, which is not yet known how lawmakers will fight: how to determine who is the goods, because women can buy cigarettes, for example, for a husband? Questions the bill until the causes are many. The explanatory note to him a lot of talk about the dangers of smoking for the female body of childbearing age. But for healthy offspring little non-smoking mothers, need and non Papa, the head of the Center for Reproductive Health, Alexander Melnikov, "The effect of smoking is equally negative, that a woman's body, that body of men, especially in adolescence».

According to Alexander Melnikov, no need to divide the tobacco users by gender. It is necessary to carry out anti-smoking propaganda aimed at all.

As for me, it's another imaginary law on health care (you believe it?), Aimed at suppressing human rights. And yes, by gender. From this starting easier. Or is it another stuffing, aimed at diverting public attention from the situation in the country and in the world? Marasmus was intense ...

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