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    "id": 1284295,
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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Maanzo",
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        "legal_name": "Maanzo Daniel Kitonga",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir, for giving me an opportunity to contribute to this very important Motion. Cigarette smoking has walked a journey in history. Enough research has not been done and the problem was not certain. I want to move a little bit from the way we have done this morning and do it by example. When I was in Lower Primary School, I boarded a bus and the tout was smoking and I could smell the smoke. I found it so nice and thought it was very cool. I told myself that when I grow up, I will definitely smoke because it is a very good thing. However, when I went to High School, I found Dr. Griffin, the then Director of Starehe Boys Centre, was struggling to stop smoking. He had used various methods and it was very difficult for him to get out of his addiction to nicotine. He had even engaged some experts from abroad to help him. He was even using filters. There was that myth that if you use the E-cigarette and smoke filters, you will eventually quit. It took him a long time to eventually quit smoking. Later on when I grew up - and I had very strict parents - I learnt that cigarette smoking was harmful to health. There was also an advertisement that used to run on the radio because the law had not developed as it is today. The singing of the lady in that advertisement was so amazing that it kept ringing in my mind for many years even up to day. You see that is what advertising does. Now, advertising has moved from radio and television to e-advertising and e- selling, and this is what Sen. Mumma is trying to address. If it is online, the wrong message will be passed that cigarette smoking is dangerous. This is written on some of the cigarettes and some pictures are drawn there about cancer and other defects. That message does not go more than the message of people getting to cigarette smoking, especially through advertisements on the internet. One of the issues she wants to deal with is the definition, which is already in Section 2 of the current Act, which has to be defined to include the modern trends that have come up the cigarette smoking. Then, the age is 18 years. So, what happens to secondary smokers? What do you do to parents who smoke and their children pick their habits or the nicotine has already got into them, like it The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Director, Hansard Services,Senate."
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