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Balkan Crisis Report / Republic’s 300,000 nicotine addicts have little to fear from harsh-sounding law that no one is enforcing.
Jump to full article: Institute for War & Peace Reporting (uk), 2005-01-27
Author: Dusica Tomovic in Podgorica (BCR No 539, 27-Jan-05)
Intro: Janko Pekovic, the deputy head of a secondary school in Montenegro’s capital, Podgorica, tried to persuade two sanitary inspectors that a “no smoking” regulation imposed in Montenegro last August 10 had not been violated when the two inspectors walked into a cloud of smoke in the staff room to find two ashtrays full and a burning cigarette in one of them.
“We had some visitors and we couldn’t tell them not to smoke,” Pekovic told the inspectors.
“Don’t worry, we agreed this morning that a vacant classroom will be used as a smoking room from now on,” he added.
The two inspectors, Kemal Grbovic and Bogdan Drobnjak, have the unenviable task of enforcing the no smoking regulation all by themselves.
So far, they have got no further than Podgorica, as the health inspection service does not have enough money for them to extend their supervision to other parts of Montenegro.
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