TY - JOUR T1 - Russia: the lobbyist’s art is alive and well JF - Tobacco Control JO - Tob Control SP - 293 LP - 293 DO - 10.1136/tc.11.4.293 VL - 11 IS - 4 AU - Anna Gilmore AU - Dina Balabanova Y1 - 2002/12/01 UR - http://tobaccocontrol.bmj.com/content/11/4/293.1.abstract N2 - Turkmenistan recently became the first country in the former Soviet Union to ban smoking in all public places. Having been advised to stop smoking following heart surgery in 2000, President Saparmurat Niyazov, Turkmenistan’s increasingly idiosyncratic and autocratic leader, introduced a fine—the equivalent of the minimum monthly wage—for anyone caught smoking in public.Governments elsewhere in the former Soviet Union, however, seem to take a more lenient approach to smoking, taking their tobacco control cues from the industry rather than their health … ER -