School boy smoking:a cause for concern!

FRANCISTOWN: The appearance of smoking schoolboys in their uniforms is slowly becoming a common sight in our society.

This disturbing sight continues to taint the social environment as more and more boys are drowning in this pool of smoking culture.

For Khabo Phineas,
"This sorry sight and epidemic is not helped by the fact that the society seems not to treat it as a social problem as opposed to smoking of other substance like marijuana. The boy child needs to be empowered to deal with this new scourge that seems to be swallowing all of them. It is very disturbing for our society to appear to be grooming future generation of perennial smokers".

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