New Delhi, May 31 -- Karnataka government has notified a legislation which now prohibits hookah bars, and has raised the legal age for buying tobacco products to 21 years. It has also increased the fines for the violation of these laws.

Earlier, the legal age to buy tobacco products in the state was 18 years.

The new law prohibits the sale of cigarettes or other tobacco products to a person below the age of twenty one years, and has also increased the fines for smoking in a public place and for sale of tobacco to people aged 21 and below, from Rs.200 to Rs.1,000.

The notification was issued on May 30, following the Cigarettes and Other Tobacco Products (Prohibition of Advertisement and Regulation of Trade and Commerce, Production, Supp...