A No Smoking activist approaches a man smoking during a campaign in Kathmandu in 2011. (c) RECPHEC
My latest article for Nepali Times hearkens back to my days as Communications Manager for the global NGO, Framework Convention Alliance:
Earlier this month, Health Minister Gagan Thapa told a workshop of South Asian activists fighting tobacco use that Nepal would adopt plain packaging of cigarettes in 2018 and make the country tobacco-free by 2030. Revealed just weeks before World No Tobacco Day on 31 May, the minister’s timing was great, but what about the content of his message?
