Turkmenistan 公約するs to end smoking within two years
Turkmen 大統領 Serdar Berdymukhamedov at a 軍の parade the 資本／首都 Ashgabat last year
Turkmenistan's 権威主義者 leader 開始する，打ち上げるd an "前例のない" anti-smoking crusade Thursday, ordering the Central Asia country to rid itself 完全に of タバコ within two years.
大統領 Serdar Berdymukhamedov said the "uncompromising" struggle against smoking would 含む a 厳重取締 on "違法な 輸入s of タバコ 製品s and their sales, 含むing shisha 麻薬を吸うs and electronic cigarettes," 明言する／公表する マスコミ 報告（する）／憶測d.
"Our 明言する／公表する will 開始する，打ち上げる a 広大な anti-タバコ movement of 前例のない size to help 拡大する the タバコ-いっそう少なく countries of the world," he 追加するd.
Strict anti-smoking 対策 -- 含むing 禁止（する）s on advertising and smoking in public places -- are already in place in the former Soviet 共和国 that has been 支配するd with an アイロンをかける 握りこぶし by the Berdymukhamedov family for nearly two １０年間s.
It is also only possible to buy cigarettes in 明言する／公表する shops.
Berdymukhamedov , who was 手渡すd the reins of 力／強力にする last year by his father Gurbanguly -- a dentist turned autocrat -- wants the country to be タバコ-解放する／自由な in 2025.
Around 20 young men were 逮捕（する）d at its 国境s for "密輸するing タバコ and shisha and electronic cigarette 製品s", 明言する／公表する television said Thursday.
One of them was filmed making a public 陳謝 for smoking a shisha at his home and 地位，任命するing a ビデオ of it to Instagram, which is banned in the の近くにd nation. The oil and gas-rich Caspian 明言する／公表する is one of the worst in the world for 圧力（をかける） freedom, coming just below Syria in the Reporters Without 国境s 年次の 索引.
大統領 Berdymukhamedov said he had "厳しく reprimmanded" the 長，率いる of Turkmenistan's customs service for the "poor 死刑執行 of his 機能（する）／行事s".
にもかかわらず his 退職, Berdymukhamedov 上級の, known as "Arkadag" (Hero Protector), continues to 支配する the country, one of the worst emitters of 惑星-heating methane gas.
He and his son 定期的に regale the nation with their singing, and he has a city, a TV channel, a newspaper and a football team 指名するd in his honour.
