2 April 2020 09:54 am
Director General Health Services Dr Anil Jasinghe has made a statement urging shop owners to refrain from selling cigarette likening it to selling “death”.
Dr Jasinghe has reminded the shop owners to consider their social responsibility at this critical juncture as smokers are at a much greater risk during the epidemic as their ratio of getting infected by the virus is far greater than that of non-smokers. He has also urged the smokers to quit smoking with immediate effect, to save their own lives.