[HIGHLIGHTS] In Ugra, a fine was introduced for smoking in public places

In Ugra, a fine was introduced for smoking in public places. The Duma of the Khanty-Mansiysk Autonomous Okrug - Ugra adopted a law on fines from 500 to 1.5 thousand rubles.

It is allowed to punish the violator as many times as he was caught, the message says. Earlier, the head of the child psychiatry department of the Scientific Center for Mental Health, Elena Balakireva, spoke about why children start smoking.