Provided that, in a hotel having thirty rooms or a restaurant having seating capacity of thirty persons or more and in airports, a separate provision for smoking area or space may be made.

Prohibition to open or run hookah bar,.- No person shall either on his own or on behalf of any other person shall open or run any hookah bar, in any place including the eating house or pub or bar or restaurant by whatever name it is called. Explanation: For the purpose of this section, “hookah” bar means “an establishment or place where people gather to smoke tobacco or other similar products from a communal hookah or narghile, which is provided individually.”

3. Substitution of section 6 Substitution of section 6.- For section 6 of the Principal Act, the following shall be substituted, namely:- “6. Prohibition on sale of cigarettes or other tobacco products to a person below the age of twenty one years and in a particular area.- No person shall sell, offer for sale or permit the sale of cigarettes or any other tobacco products,-

1. (a) to any person who is under the age of twenty one years;
2. (b) in an area within a radius of one hundred meters of any educational institution; or
3. (c) loose or in single sticks.”