Som Karamchetty 156 days ago

This is quite a natural expectation in India. They will enact a law or issue an order what is not to be done. But, such impositions take a long time to work if they do at all. Some of these are reflexive actions that are necessitated by the state of the body. The mouth does not like to keep the phlegm and saliva or the tobacco and pan residue. The mind is not tuned to the circumstances and allows the body (the mouth in this case) to go ahead.

Hence, there are two sets of actions required from the society. Informing and training the mind about the costs to society (dirty environment and spread of diseases) and to the individual (fines, fights with neighboring people, and arrest) is one of those sets. This information and training are best done by videos on TV shows and mobile phones.

Mind can only control the body for so long; there is need for alternative safe disposal of the spit. This requires the provision of facilities (spittoons) or liberal supply of cheap tissues, which form the second set.

Sign boards, notifying people, “Spitting is prohibited,” have been seen to have become targets of people with a penchant for spitting in public.