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Demarketing of tobacco products can be one of the solutions in Namibia.
Jump to full article: The Southern Times (New Era Corp.) (na), 2010-04-23
Author: Rosalia Ndafuda Fotolela
Intro: Unfortunately, in Namibia, 90 percent of smokers are also alcohol consumers, which is one of the serious health risks.
Many countries whose economies depend on tobacco products are left with no other option but to force governments to allow the production of tobacco by giving limited hectares of land to the farmers and quotas of raw tobacco to the manufacturers.
In the Namibian context, tobacco products are imported from other countries, which could give us proper control over maximum consumption and to avoid the most dangerous tobaccos products to enter Namibia. . . .
The Namibian policy-makers should have to look at it with "health concerned eyes" due to the fact that many diseases are caused by tobacco consumption, including lung cancer, bronchitis, etc.
The government is also urged to introduce tobacco day as a campaign, to show videos of people who are suffering from diseases caused by smoking.
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