 bill no  xxv  of 2007 the cigarettes and other tobacco products (prohibition of advertisement and regulation of trade and commerce, production, supply and distribution) amendment bill, 2007 a billto amend the cigarettes and other tobacco products (prohibition of advertisement and regulation of trade and commerce, production, supply and distribution) act, 2003be it enacted by parliament in the fifty-eighth year of the republic of india as follows:—amendment of section 62 in section 6 of the cigarettes and other tobacco products (prohibition ofadvertisement and regulation of trade and commerce, production, supply and distribution) act, 2003 (hereinafter referred to as the principal act), clause (b) shall be omittedamendment of section 753 in section 7 of the principal act, after the words ''cigarettes or any other tobaccoproducts'' wherever they occur, the words ''except beedis'' shall be insertedamendment of section 84  in section 8 of the principal act, after the words ''cigarettes or any other tobaccoproducts'' wherever they occur, the words ''except beedi'' shall be inserted5 in section 9 of the principal act,—amendment of section 9(i) in sub-section (1) after the words "cigarettes and other tobacco products"the words "except beedis" shall be inserted10(ii) in sub-section (2) after the words "cigarettes or other tobacco products" thewords ''except beedis'' shall be insertedamendment of section 106  in section 10 of the principal act, after the words "cigarettes and any other tobaccoproducts", the words "except beedis" shall be inserted15amendment of section 117  in section 11 of the principal act, after the words "cigarettes and any other tobaccoproducts", the words "except beedis" shall be inserted statement of objects and reasonsthe cigarettes and other tobacco products (prohibition of  advertisement and regulation of trade and commerce, production, supply and distribution) act, 2003 (act no 34 of 2003) was enacted by parliament to prohibit the advertisement and to provide the regulation of trade and commerce, production, supply and distribution of cigarettes and other tobacco products and for matters connected therewith or incidental theretosome of the sections of the act have direct effect on the workers employing in the beedi industry like, section 6 (b) of the act prohibits no person shall sell, offer for sale, or permit sale of cigarettes or any other tobacco products in an area within a radius of one hundred yards of any educational institution as in big cities and towns, there are large number of educational institutions at very short distance from each other, it would not be possible to maintain the stipulation of one hundred  yards radius similarly, the sections 7, 8, 9, 10 and 11 have provisions to restrict trade & commerce, production, supply & distribution of cigarettes and other tobacco products and related mattersthe warning of a pictorial depiction of  skull and cross bones and such other warning on cigarettes and tobacco products as stated in the clause 1 of section 7 of the act has led to catastrophic effect on the beedi industry and beedi workers, rendering lacs of beedi workers jobless clause 4 of the section 7 of the act stated that the specified warning shall appear on not less than one of the largest panels of the package but as the packets of beedis have no panels, this provision could not be applied in case of beedi similarly, according to clause 5 of  section 7 of the act, nicotine and tar contents should be indicated on the label of cigarettes and other tobacco products quantifying of nicotine and tar contents is not possible in case of beedi, since the beedi industry is mainly home based industry located in interior villages, related  provisions are there in sections 8, 9, 10 and 11, which directly effect beedi industryin view of the above and to protect the interest of beedi workers it is proposed to amend sections 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 and 11 of the act suitablyhence this billtapan  kumar sen annexure extracts from the cigarettes and other tobacco products (prohibition of advertisement and regulation of trade and commerce, production supply and distribution) act, 2003  6 no person shall sell, offer for sale, or permit sale of, cigarette or any other tobacco product—(a) to any person who is under eighteen years of age, and (b) in an area within a radius of one hundred yards of any educational institution   prohibition on sale of cigarette or other tobacco products to a person below the age of eighteen years and in particular area rajya  sabha———— a billto amend the cigarettes and other tobacco products (prohibition of advertisement and regulation of trade and commerce, production, supply and distribution) act, 2003————(shri tapan kumar sen, mp)mgipmrnd—1770rs (s3)—27-04-2007