Turkmenistan vows to end smoking within 2 years
Turkmenistan’s President Serdar Berdymukhamedov has launched an unprecedented anti-smoking crusade that will crackdown on illegal imports of tobacco products and ban advertising and lighting up in public places, among other measures. – AFP pic, June 8, 2023.
TURKMENISTAN’S authoritarian leader launched an “unprecedented” anti-smoking crusade today, ordering the Central Asia country to rid itself completely of tobacco within two years. President Serdar Berdymukhamedov said the “uncompromising” struggle against smoking would include a crackdown on “illegal importations of tobacco products and their sales, including shisha pipes and electronic cigarettes”, state media reported.
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