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    "id": 861876,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Seme, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Dr.) James Nyikal",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I rise to second the Motion on the Ratification of the Protocol to Eliminate Illicit Trade in Tobacco Products. There is need for us as a country to sign this. The problem of tobacco is, to a large extent, a health problem. In fact, tobacco use and diseases associated with it cause the largest number of non-communicable diseases like heart diseases, vesicular lymph and cancer. Some people think it only causes cancer of the lungs, but any cancer can be associated with this. Others are diabetes and chronic lung diseases. It even affects new born children or children whose mothers smoke during pregnancy. They will be born with these effects. In Kenya, up to 23 per cent of males use cigarettes. In females, it is 4 per cent. Even children between the ages of 13 to 19, up to nearly 10 per cent use cigarettes. Cigarettes are the most commonly used product. If you look at the deaths due to non-communicable diseases, 50 per cent of them are associated with tobacco use. Illicit trade really needs to be controlled because it increases access and once you have access, everybody can get it easily, the prices are low and even children can get tobacco. Tobacco is addictive and so once children start using it, it is very difficult to stop the use."
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