BHUTAN SMOKING
January 1st, 2004
BY KENCHO WANGDIEVEN as the World Health Organisation (WHO) and some 170 countries work towards implementing a tobacco control convention, Bhutan, the remote and tiny Himalayan kingdom, has taken a step further by banning tobacco sale at all its duty-free outlets.The ban is a major thrust since a majority of Bhutan's smoking population, about 30 per cent, puff American and European cigarettes, supplied in plenty by local duty free shops. This outright restriction on sales is the first made by the national government since it launched a National Tobacco Control ...
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