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• Public Smoking- Minister Blames Parliament for Delay 

The Minister of Health, Jean Damascene Ntawukuriryayo has blamed Parliament for the delay in effecting the ban on public smoking.

"Our considerations could not come into practice because the law governing public smoking in the country has to be debated in Parliament and included in the Official Gazette before being enforced," the Minister told The New Times recently, adding however, that he was optimistic the law would soon be enacted.

Ntawukuriryayo also stressed that his Ministry had put in place the requisite conditions aimed at ending public smoking.

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