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Posted to the web 11 October 2008 Lydia Namubiru Kampala A highly addictive, intoxicating drug is being openly sold in Ugandan shops and supermarkets. The drug, sold under the brand name 'Kuber', is disguised as a mouth...
Tobacco smuggling causes around 4,000 premature deaths a year_four times the number of deaths caused by the use of all smuggled illegal drugs put together_but the UK government is not doing enough to tackle the problem.
The Federal Government's preventative health taskforce says tackling diseases caused by obesity, tobacco and alcohol will help to reduce the 17-year gap in life expectancy between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians.
