if some of their people are not health conscious.
It took the health authority (Hamad medical previously) nearly a decade, to come up with the smoking in public law.
The law states that violated persons, will pay a fine of 200QR as minimum, but no mention of charging the violated place.
All restaurants & cafes who submit to the law, have a health inspector contact number, and are instructed to:
1. State clearly that it’s a non-smoking area.
2. Serve no ashtrays.
3. Warn the violated person
4. Finally, contact the health inspector.
Unfortunately, Cafes ignore that. Although they don’t serve ashtrays, you’ll find some come up with handing them a plastic glass with water in the bottom ‘I wonder from where did they invented that’. No warning & no health inspector ever been called!
What do you want the authorities to do more?
There is no tobacco advertisement on media. Smoking clinic works 3days a week, conducting seminars, providing health information in all local media.
Recently there was an addition to the law that no more sheisha permits to be given. It meant to stop the flood of sheisha cafes in Qatar, which is a progress. Since Sheisha is becoming a trend nowadays in most Arab countries.
I don’t act patriotic & don’t jump on every one criticizing Qatar.
I agree that some Qataris are the lawbreakers. Yet I dislike that some states ‘with no actual figures or familiarity what’s so ever’ that authority is doing nothing about it.
In France there is a ‘dog poo’ crisis. Unfortunately, some are too ignorant to pick after their dogs. Authorities are trying there best. Yet no one is calling Paris a $$ity place!
if some of their people are not health conscious.
It took the health authority (Hamad medical previously) nearly a decade, to come up with the smoking in public law.
The law states that violated persons, will pay a fine of 200QR as minimum, but no mention of charging the violated place.
All restaurants & cafes who submit to the law, have a health inspector contact number, and are instructed to:
1. State clearly that it’s a non-smoking area.
2. Serve no ashtrays.
3. Warn the violated person
4. Finally, contact the health inspector.
Unfortunately, Cafes ignore that. Although they don’t serve ashtrays, you’ll find some come up with handing them a plastic glass with water in the bottom ‘I wonder from where did they invented that’. No warning & no health inspector ever been called!
What do you want the authorities to do more?
There is no tobacco advertisement on media. Smoking clinic works 3days a week, conducting seminars, providing health information in all local media.
Recently there was an addition to the law that no more sheisha permits to be given. It meant to stop the flood of sheisha cafes in Qatar, which is a progress. Since Sheisha is becoming a trend nowadays in most Arab countries.
I don’t act patriotic & don’t jump on every one criticizing Qatar.
I agree that some Qataris are the lawbreakers. Yet I dislike that some states ‘with no actual figures or familiarity what’s so ever’ that authority is doing nothing about it.
In France there is a ‘dog poo’ crisis. Unfortunately, some are too ignorant to pick after their dogs. Authorities are trying there best. Yet no one is calling Paris a $$ity place!