Smoke-Free

A village in South Sulawesi and another in West Sumatra have banned public smoking.

A banner hangs above the the entrance to Bone-Bone Village in Enrekang Regency, South Sulawesi. No smoking here, it states. Along the village border, three other signs announce the same thing.

Mahada, a local coffee farmer, quit smoking in 2014, a few years after the cigarette ban took effect. The 61-year-old admitted that at first, he was against t