The Kenyan government has cracked down on cigarettes with a ban on advertising and smoking in public, driving the habit into the shadows
There is a wooden shed in the middle of Nairobi city centre, dark, full of fumes, crowded and deliberately built beside the public toilets. It feels like a place of shame.
Jairus Masumba, Nairobi county’s deputy director of public health, calls it in jest the gazebo. It’s the public smoking place, created by his department. It is claustrophobic and filled with smoke, some of which drifts out through slats, but most of which hangs heavily in the fugged air inside.
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