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• Reprieve to smokers as ministry backtracks on council by-laws 

Jump to full article: East African Standard (ke), 2008-10-27
Author: Peter Opiyo

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Smokers would be trooping back to the town streets in glee, clutching and puffing away their treasured stick confidently.

Incessant threats by smokers to sue the local authorities have forced it to backtrack on council by-laws.

Following such threats the Ministry of Local Government issued a public notice that councils have been acting in contravention of the recently introduced Tobacco Control Act.

The by-laws locked out smokers from the streets.

The ministry was forced to eat humble pie after the Attorney General, Amos Wako, agreed that the councils had overstepped their mandates by barring smokers from puffing on the streets.

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