The fight against smoking in public places has now become a matter of almost every policeman. Now to fix the violations and the minutes have the right and precinct, and the traffic police personnel and patrol. Presidential campaign for the nation's health has begun.
Victoria Belozertseva, press officer Obolonky RU GU MVD in Kiev, clarified that the statutory penalties for smoking in the wrong places existed since 2005. However, in the previous law did not specify the locations where smoking is prohibited, and no prescribed mechanisms to punish violators. After clarifying these ambiguities parliamentary law enforcement agencies have begun active work in this direction.
According to Arcadia Zaporozhtseva, deputy chief of the Department of Public Safety, chief of district inspectors of Ministry of Internal Affairs, the Ministry has sent instructions to allow the district and patrol the minutes of violations. With regard to the amounts of fines, from the 11/07/2009, the smoking in prohibited place will cost from 51 to 170 UAH., If repeated violations - from 170 to 340 UAH. Penalty for smoking in public transport is from 85 to 340 UAH.
Active struggle against smoking was launched three years ago in Donetsk. City authorities reported 23 areas where smoking is banned and alcohol. Since then, the number of violations decreased significantly, and smokers are increasingly bound by the rules. Most of the violations recorded by the visitors, who are not sufficiently familiar with the rules.
The fight against smoking has intensified in other regions of Ukraine. Thus, in the Sumy region over the last 6 months were issued more than one thousand five hundred protocols, and the amount of fines was about 5 thousand UAH. In the Poltava region recorded 700 violations. Representatives of law enforcement officials indicate that smokers are often not aware that violate the law. Sometimes it causes aggressive reaction on their part, many require clarification on the places where smoking is allowed.
Under the new rules, penalties will be imposed not only on offenders, smoking in public places, but also to owners of public catering facilities, which allows such. By law, at least half the area of a cafe, restaurant or bar must be designed for non-smokers and free from tobacco smoke. If you can not organize a separate room, smoking is prohibited in the facility. However, to date there has been no payment of fines in the amount of 1 to 10 ths. catering establishments. But citizens can feel the effect of new rules on themselves. So, who lives in Poltava Valery Datsenko in one night managed to get just two fines for smoking in the wrong places.
Valery Datsenko upset that he had to pay 150 hryvnia. According to him, for the entire 15-year experience of smoking it this never happened. Moreover, police officers themselves often smoke near the entrance to the police department. Valery was arrested for smoking in the park, and then - for smoking on the station platform.
He admitted that the fines are unlikely to make it adhere to the law, unless carefully inspected by the parties before a cigarette. Valery believes that people just do not know, the places where smoking is prohibited and where smoking can be.
As usual, the fight against smoking has affected traders selling cigarettes by the piece. For violation they will have to lay out 510 UAH. Typically, they manage to escape before the police raids, but some still come across.
Strict prohibitions relating to smoking in vestibules trains. Employees of the transport police make frequent rounds to find violators. Many passengers think that some time be patient and not smoking, and if to be a long road, then you can smoke in the toilet, where it's hard to fix the fault.
The fight against smoking in the near future will affect the drivers. Traffic policemen rightly believe that smoking while driving, like talking on the phone, helps dispel the attention of the driver and can cause an accident. Monitoring compliance with the rules already begun Mariupol GAI. Fixing the first violation, the inspector makes the driver a warning.
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