You'll Walk More Than a Mile for a Camel

In our October issue, Charles Paul Freund wrote about the small Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan's ambivalence about the introduction of television, which had prompted proposals to restrict programming. The country's rulers are apparently far less ambivalent about tobacco, which has now been banned.. No, not "banned from bars and restaurants" like they keep trying to do here; banned as in "your Marlboros are now an illicit substance." They're probably just ahead of the curve, alas.