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...Bhutan This Himalayan nation became the first to prohibit not only smoking in public, but also all sales of tobacco. In a kingdom with few smokers (owing in part to a local belief that traces the tobacco plant's origin to a she-devil), the black-market price of a pack of Marlboros has doubled, to $2.60, since the ban took effect in December...
...Ireland The Emerald Isle last March became the first country to ban smoking in virtually all workplaces, including pubs. The Office of Tobacco Control, in a six-month update, reported 94% compliance. A hotline for snitches still gets up to 50 calls a week...
When former Brown & Williamson executive Jeffrey Wigand went up against Big Tobacco in 1995, he had to have a bodyguard. Now, thanks in part to a Hollywood movie, The Insider, he is a full-time crusader, arguing for smoking bans around the world and testifying last week in a federal racketeering case against tobacco companies. He spoke with TIME's Amanda Ripley...
...BLOWERS USUALLY HAVE A HARD TIME REINVENTING THEMSELVES. NO MATTER WHAT, THEY ARE VIEWED AS DISLOYAL. HOW DID YOU ESCAPE THAT FATE? Don't know. The truth came out, and it came out in spades. The movie helped. I became a poster boy. I think the egregious behavior [of tobacco companies]--that it went on for decades. I think people got angry. There is also a price that comes with that. My daughters understood what I did, and they're very proud. If my marriage had been strong enough, it might have withstood it too. But it didn...
...your health. According to a University of St. Andrews' study in December, counterfeits contain up to five times more carcinogens such as cadmium and arsenic. One hundred million counterfeit cigarettes are made in China each year (about 85% of the world's total), according to the country's State Tobacco Monopoly Administration, which is now trying to snuff out the fakes. Last week, officials in Henan, China's second largest tobacco-growing province, torched $360,000 worth of contraband cigarettes...