"Now wait... that... isn't me. I wouldn't do that. The pollution... the potential germs... that's .. not me."
Posted on 03/06/2011 7:00:52 AM PST by TigerLikesRooster
Monk first person in Bhutan jailed over tobacco
by Adam Plowright
Fri Mar 4, 12:56 pm ET
NEW DELHI (AFP) – A monk in Bhutan has become the first person jailed under the country's draconian anti-smoking law after a court handed him a three-year prison sentence for smuggling tobacco worth $2.50.
Sonam Tshering was jailed Thursday for bringing in 48 packets of chewing tobacco worth 120 Bhutanese ngultrums from India without declaring it to customs in the Himalayan kingdom.
Bhutan banned the sale of cigarettes in 2005 and tightened up its law last year to combat smuggling, requiring consumers to provide valid customs receipts for any tobacco products.
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BAD NEWS: The entire world has gone absolutely, moon-barking crazy.
GOOD NEWS: The new, improved, progressive USA fits right in.
"Now wait... that... isn't me. I wouldn't do that. The pollution... the potential germs... that's .. not me."
Bhutan is an oddball of country. I’ve never understood how they’ve been able to avoid being swallowed up by India or China.
Sounds like they are like California. cannot even smoke outside (or is that N Y that passed that law?)
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