Bhutan Proposal to lighten penalties

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Highlights of the proposal

- Offence will be rated as misdemeanor and not felony

- Section 52 and 54 will be removed

- The word ‘smuggling’ will be removed

- Two clauses to be added in section 11

- The Parliament is to determine the quantity and type of tobacco products for 

personal consumption

- Dzongkhag, gewog and thromde tshogdes shall provide support and cooperation 

for co-ordination and conduct awareness programs on tobacco control

From the Readers Tobacco Amendment – too little too late

I had hopes that amending the tobacco control act would be something more spectacular than this.

Guess I was wrong.