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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.

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Reclusive Turkmenistan bids to go tobacco-free in 2025

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.

As a teenager, Bekmourad Khojayev was hiding from his parents for smoking. Fifty years later, this retired man is still hiding, but now from the police of Turkmenistan, where the authorities promise to "free" this country from Central Asia from tobacco by the end of the year."I smoke...

Achkhabad - Teen, Bekmourad Khodjayev was hiding from his parents for smoking. Fifty years later, this retired man is still hiding, but now from the police of Turkmenistan, where the authorities promise to "free" this country from Central Asia of tobacco by the end of the year. "I smoke in my apartment. But if I want to smoke in the city, I look for a place without surveillance cameras to avoid a fine: an alley, a dead end, behind high bushes, t…

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L'Opinion broke the news in on Wednesday, August 20, 2025.
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