We need food, not nicotine addiction


THIS year’s theme for World No Tobacco Day, “We need food, not tobacco”, is relevant to Malaysia although our tobacco farmers began switching over to kenaf cultivation about a decade ago.

The tobacco industry is now focused on pushing the highly addictive nicotine as a substitute.

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