Ashgabat, Turkmenistan, Aug 27, 2025 (AFP) - Reclusive Turkmenistan bids to go tobacco-free in 2025

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When he was a teenager, Bekmurad Khodjayev used to hide from his parents to smoke. Fifty years later, the Turkmen pensioner is still hiding, but this time from the police. "I smoke in my apartment. But if I feel like smoking in town, I find a place without surveillance cameras to avoid a fine -- an alleyway, a dead end, behind some tall bushes or trees, a deserted spot," the 64-year-old builder told AFP. The reclusive Central Asian state of seven......

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