Bijeesha Budhathoki February 3, 2021 Comments Anushka Shakya usually brings her lunch for her office from her own home. One day, one of her colleagues asked her to eat out. She agreed. Later, Shakya, who does not have any smoker in her family, felt her decision was wrong. “We went to a nearby restaurant and sat in a no-smoking zone. But, a group of boys came in and started smoking there,” she narrates, “My friend and I asked them not to do so in non-smoking areas or else move to smoking zones, but all in vain.” If the government had implemented its laws effectively, Shakya and her friend could have been able to sue the smokers for Nepal has already banned smoking in public places that also include restaurants. It has already been a decade since the Tobacco Control and Regulatory Act came into effect, but the law prohibiting public smoking exists on paper only.