Monday, 20. January 2003
Topic: - on January 20, 2003 at 11:23:09 AM CET
Bhutan seeks to ban smoking
Armed with tradition and determination, Bhutan's Government says it wants to stamp out smoking across the country - possibly becoming the first nation on earth to entirely ban tobacco use.
The tradition in the remote Himalayan kingdom dates back to the 17th Century, some say even earlier.
In the 1640s, the founder of modern Bhutan, the warrior monk Shabdrung Ngawang Namgyal, enacted the first-ever ban on smoking in public when he outlawed the use of tobacco in government buildings.
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