The National Law University of Odisha as a part of its Project on Tobacco Control Initiatives is organising an online national consultation for advancing effective tobacco control in India.
About the University
National Law University Odisha (NLUO) is a public law school and a National law University in India located at Cuttack, Odisha. It was established in 2008 (Act 4 of 2008) under the National Law University Odisha Act, commencing its first batch from July 2009. The institute offers undergraduate (integrated B.A./LL.B.), BBA/LL.B., and post-graduate courses (L.L.M, M.Phil., PhD) in law. It is one among the 25 NLUs in the country.
Currently NLUO is the fastest growing National Law University (NLU) in all aspects including Academics, Moot Academics, Placements etc.NLUO also has Asia’s Largest Law Library which was inaugurated in 2023.
About the Event
The consultation sessions aims at providing an overview on the prevalence of different type of tobacco use among youth and its multidimensional impact, need and importance of increasing the minimum legal age of buying tobacco to 21 years, and role of all stakeholders in drafting the proposed amendment and develop the strategy to face challenges.
Report of online consultation meet will be shared with all stakeholders. The consultation will receive expert’s opinion to identify law and policy gap and the required reform in current law and policy to increase the minimum age of buying tobacco to 21 years. Report of online consultation meet will be shared with all stakeholders.
Topic
Increasing minimum legal age of buying tobacco to 21 years.
Speaker
- The speakers and panelists for the consultation program will include senior tobacco control experts, policy and advocacy experts, and law representatives.
- The participants of the consultation will include, Judges, senior law practitioners, faculty members of Judicial Academies, academician from law universities, the Ministry of Health & Family Welfare, the Ministry of Law and Justice, Police Academies, the National Institute of Social Defence, New Delhi, civil societies, etc.
General Details
- Date: August 24, 2023
- Time: 3.30 PM to 5.00 PM
- Mode: Online
- Platform: Google Meet (Link given at the end of the post)
- Meeting Video Call Code – rib-ckdu-bus
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Source: Lawctopus
