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    Emil Lazarian
  • 1 year ago
    • Categories: 2023

Pashinyan instructs to strengthen smoking ban supervision

 15:08, 3 August 2023

YEREVAN, AUGUST 3, ARMENPRESS. Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan instructed on Thursday to strengthen control over the smoking ban in public food businesses.

Speaking at the Cabinet meeting, he emphasized that in many cases the smoking ban gets ignored.  

“Our goal is not to hand out fines, our goal is to make people stop smoking. Owners and employees should also be held responsible so that they do not allow smoking,” Pashinyan said, adding that the objective is to create the ‘most uncomfortable conditions’ for smokers.

In turn, Minister of Internal Affairs Vahe Ghazaryan said that from January 1, 2023 until today, a total of 7,186 administrative protocols have been issued for violating the smoking ban, of which 790 were in public food places.

Emil Lazarian: “I should like to see any power of the world destroy this race, this small tribe of unimportant people, whose wars have all been fought and lost, whose structures have crumbled, literature is unread, music is unheard, and prayers are no more answered. Go ahead, destroy Armenia . See if you can do it. Send them into the desert without bread or water. Burn their homes and churches. Then see if they will not laugh, sing and pray again. For when two of them meet anywhere in the world, see if they will not create a New Armenia.” - WS