22 Jul 2015

Turkmenistan The World's Most Non-Smoking Country: WHO

ASHGABAT: Wellbeing fixated previous Soviet Turkmenistan is the nation with the world's most minimal extent of smokers, World Wellbeing Association boss Margaret Chan said amid a visit to the segregated country on Tuesday. 
Chan said that only eight percent of the populace smoked, by figures.

"As of late a WHO diagram demonstrated that in Turkmenistan just eight percent of the populace smokes," Chan told the nation's tyrant President Gurbanguly Berdymukhamedov, who is a dental specialist via preparing. 

"This is the most reduced national pointer on the planet. I praise you on this accomplishment," she said at a wellbeing discussion in the capital Ashgabat. 

Refered to by state media, Chan noticed that the nation sanctioned the System Tradition on Tobacco Control in 2011 by which time it had effectively banned smoking out in the open spots. 

Likewise talking at the gathering, Vera Luiza da Costa e Silva, Leader of the Tradition Secretariat, tested the Focal Asian state to drive smoking down to five for every penny of the populace in the advancing years. 

In 1990, 27 percent of Turkmen guys more than 15 and one percent of females smoked. 

After 10 years Turkmenistan banned smoking out in the open spots, state structures and the armed force, and in addition all types of tobacco publicizing. 

By examination, 31.1 percent of the worldwide male populace beyond 15 years old smoked in 2012, while 6.2 percent of females were smokers. 

President Berdymukhamedov, in force subsequent until the very end of offbeat antecedent Saparmurat Niyazov in 2006, is a sharp equestrian, while Niyazov battled against smoking and constructed a 36-kilometer "way of wellbeing" into the mountains encompassing Ashgabat which government authorities were compelled to walk. 

This April the gas-rich nation of more than five million held a month of open activities and brandishing occasions under the motto "wellbeing and bliss."