BHUTAN TO LIFT ANTI-SMOKING BAN
March 17th, 2014
After five years of trying to maintain a comprehensive and groundbreaking tobacco ban, Bhutan politicians appear to have decided the idea is utopian and unworkable, with the upper house of Bhutan’s parliament agreeing unanimously that the country’s controversial tobacco ban should end – and for good.The tiny Himalayan Buddhist kingdom made international headlines in 2009 when it passed a law that not only banned the import and sale of tobacco products in the country, but criminalised it. Under the strict law, offenders were charged with a fourth degree ...
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