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Jump to full article: Awoko Newspaper (sl), 2008-08-06
Author: Ishmael Bayoh [item undated]
Intro: Whilst debating on the new National Drug Control Act 2008 last Thursday, some members of Parliament agitated for the banning of cigarette smoking in public places and also that of alcohol drinking.
The MPs argued that whilst penalties are being placed on drugs – like cocaine, heroine, morphine and marijuana – nicotine and alcohol should be included in the harmful list.
Hon Tamba Khagbenje of SLPP, the first of over twenty parliamentarians who contributed on the bill, posed the question of why cigarette smoking was left out of the bill.
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