http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jul/22/turkmenistan-the-health-obsessed-country-where-nobody-smokes
The former Soviet republic tops the world’s non-smoking league with fewer than one in 12 people still using tobacco
Agence France-Presse
The health-obsessed former Soviet republic Turkmenistan is the country with the world’s lowest proportion of smokers, the World Health Organisation’s director general, Margaret Chan, said during a visit to the isolated nation on Tuesday.
“Recently a WHO overview showed that in Turkmenistan only 8% of the population smokes,” Chan told the country’s authoritarian president, Gurbanguly Berdymukhamedov, at a health forum in the capital, Ashgabat.
“This is the lowest national indicator in the world. I congratulate you on this achievement.”