This was reported in the Telegram channel of the regional government.

“Avid fans of smoking, for example, in parks and entrances will have to pay from 500 to 1,500 rubles.

It is allowed to punish the violator as many times as he was caught,” the message says.

It is clarified that we are talking about smoking tobacco, other products containing nicotine, and hookahs.

Earlier, the head of the child psychiatry department of the Scientific Center for Mental Health, candidate of medical sciences Elena Balakireva, spoke about why children start smoking.