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Shoe shops shut for selling tobacco 

RAS AL KHAIMAH -- Municipal inspectors shut down three shoe repair shops and slapped a fine of Dh3,000 each on the owners for illegally selling tobacco (niswar) to schoolchildren and youths in the emirate on March 24.

Huge quantities of tobacco products were also seized during the raid on the shops.

Adil Ali Al Deek, Head of the Health and Environment Department in Ras Al Khaimah Municipality, said there were several complaints from the residents in various areas of RAK about the sale of tobacco at the shoe repair shops despite several warnings issued to them by the RAK Municipality.

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