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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Montet Betty",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir. I also rise to support this important Motion brought by my colleague, Sen. Mumma, touching on an important part of our society – our youth and our future. I encourage her to elevate this Motion to the next level, so that we can have laws guiding the purchase, smoking and everything concerning the e-cigarette. It is sad that e-cigarettes have been abused by our youth. In most cases, very hard dangerous drugs are added into those cigarettes as they take them in their social set ups and we end up having very saddening situations with so many of our youth in rehabilitation centres looking bad. Mr. Speaker, Sir, because the law is not there to govern this issue on E-cigarettes, even the teachers in schools are finding it difficult to control the use. As it has been said by many of my colleagues, it has become the cool thing to be on E-cigarettes among our youth. The fact that most of our youth are able to access the internet at a very early age and with no controls has contributed a lot in promotion of abusing this substance. I encourage that this should be looked into urgently because we are losing quite a number of our youth to a point that most of the time when they are being called for job interviews, most of them fail because they have substance in their blood. Parents would not know that they have been abusing these substances. I support and encourage Sen. Mumma to move to the next level fast, so that we can have all these laws put in place and the controlled use of E-cigarettes."
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