An alliance between a non-governmental organization dedicated to promoting a tobacco-free environment and the federal government’s health regulator may go some way to ensuring at least partial enforcement of the strict anti-smoking laws recently approved at the federal level in Mexico.
Laws given the green light by Congress last month effectively ban smoking in all public places, and oblige stores not to have cigarette packs on show to their customers.
At a press conference held in Guadalajara, representatives of the Jalisco branch of the Commission for the Protection of Health Risks of the State (Coprisjal) and the NGO Codice Jalisco spoke of the actions they are taking jointly to strengthen compliance of the new General Law for Tobacco Control, under a cooperation agreement signed by both institutions in May of last year.
Alicia Yolanda Reyes, the director of Codice in Jalisco, said the two institutions have been in “constant communication” and have already carried out visits to shops and restaurants where the law is not being enforced.
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