SAD MLA Manjinder Singh Sirsa on Thursday urged the National Green Tribunal (NGT) to immediately take action against the hookah bars in the city, claiming they were turning the youth into drug addicts.
‘Bars illegal’
In a letter to the green panel, Mr. Sirsa said it was very surprising that hookah bars were operating in the city when most other States had banned such establishments.
He also alleged that the hookah bars in the city were operating illegally and selling harmful products to the youth.
Harmful effects
He said the tobacco used in a hookah contained harmful chemicals and could cause lung cancer, heart diseases, periodontal infection, wrinkled skin, impotency, TB herpes, influenza, nausea, coughing, etc.
The MLA also wrote that one session of hookah smoking was equivalent to smoking 100 cigarettes.