Prohibition of storage and sale and distribution of cigarettes, etc.

No person shall himself or by any person on his behalf, store, sell or distribute cigarettes, beedies, chewing tobacco, gul (tobacco), tobacco paste, supari with tobacco, pan-masala, zarda, snuff, ghutka or any other such smoking substance or substances containing tobacco within an area of 100 metres around place of worship or any college, school or other educational institutions.

1[Provided that the Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, specify the tobacco products and words/localities within the limits of municipal councils, for which, the aforesaid prohibition shall not apply.].