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January 22nd, 2005, 02:35 AM
http://slate.msn.com/id/2112449/
The tiny, trendy Himalayan kingdom recently became the world's first nonsmoking nation. Since Dec. 17, it has been illegal to smoke in public or sell tobacco. Violators are fined the equivalent of $232—more than two months' salary in Bhutan.
The first foreign tourists only arrived in 1974.
Television and the Internet are even more novel, having arrived only in 1999.
Thimphu is the world's only capital city with no traffic lights.
The tiny, trendy Himalayan kingdom recently became the world's first nonsmoking nation. Since Dec. 17, it has been illegal to smoke in public or sell tobacco. Violators are fined the equivalent of $232—more than two months' salary in Bhutan.
The first foreign tourists only arrived in 1974.
Television and the Internet are even more novel, having arrived only in 1999.
Thimphu is the world's only capital city with no traffic lights.