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    "id": 234170,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Bett",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Franklin Kipng'etich Bett",
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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I want to thank the Minister for Health, hon. Sungu and the Departmental Committee on Health, Housing, Labour and Social Welfare for giving a keen attention to health issues in relation to tobacco substances. I was told that when the Portuguese came to East Africa, they came with tobacco plants. Hitherto, there were no tobacco plants in this country. This may be an issue we may need to take up with the Portuguese later on. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, we are now being told that there are 4,000 substances in tobacco, 400 of which are harmful. Forty of them are agents of cancer. The tobacco farmer is at risk. We may say that it is an agricultural product that gives the farmer some income, but coming into contact with tobacco makes the farmer take in some of those deadly substances. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, the person on the factory floor is at risk. The risk is greater when the substance has been crushed. It attacks the worker, and yet we are saying that it creates employment. What kind of employment is this? At the end of the chain, we have dead people as a result of cancer and other related diseases. The smoker, himself or herself, is on direct attack by the substances. I want to agree with Dr. Manduku that, even I, who does not smoke, have to suffer the consequences of tobacco smoking because of careless smokers who send all these substances into the air without control. I"
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