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• Yanza tobacco traders ignorant about new law 

A sojourn by the Business Times has indicated that Tobacco vendors in Yanza market are unaware of the restrictive measures instituted recently by the Ministry of Health, to curb smoking in public places. Located about four kilometres on the outskirts of Nyabugogo, a suburb of Kigali city,between Kigali-Ngali and MVK provinces,

Tobacco business at Yanza is booming as usual despite the new law on tobacco.

Yanza is a hub of activities that revolve around tobacco and the people there say the law will disrupt their businesses. "Tobacco smoking has been in existence since time imemorial; even before my father died he used to deal in the same product and smoked it but died of a different disease that is not tobacco-related," Vincent Mazimpaka, said.

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