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October 27, 2008 12:10 PM

Indian Smoking Ban: One Man's 'Fancy' and Likely To Fail

The Current Discussion: India recently passed a national smoking ban. Should the rest of the world follow, or is that stepping over the line?

India did pass a really strong law banning smoking in almost all public and work places, but it is being seen not so much as a great expression of national or political will to end a public health scourge so much as the obsession of one man: Health Minister S. Ramadoss.

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