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Title: You can breathe the air in Bhutan; Buddhist nation sees smoking as unhealthy and a sin.(PAGE ONE)
Publication: The Washington Times (Newspaper)
Date: July 4, 2003
Publisher: News World Communications, Inc.
Page: A01Distributed by Thompson Gale
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Byline: Campbell Spencer, SPECIAL TO THE WASHINGTON TIMES
THIMPU, Bhutan - The Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan is well on the way to becoming the first nation on earth to completely ban the use of tobacco, hot on the heels of the recently adopted global Framework Convention on Tobacco Control, the world's first anti-smoking treaty.
Bhutan Health Minister Sangay Ngedup told the World Health Assembly in Geneva last month that his nation of 2 million inhabitants is aiming to be smoke-free by the end of the year.
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