A wide range of tobacco preparations including snuff (ugoro) and varieties of crude homemade cigarettes are popular here and other parts of the country.
Health complications wrought by tobacco smoking vary from life-threatening pneumonia in children to outright impotence in men. More dangerous narcotic drugs are also prevalent. Marunde Madanga, a 55-year-old peasant from Chilonwa Village in Dodoma Rural District, who came into the city of Dar es Salaam to beg recently, says he took up tobacco smoking nearly 20 years ago.
He admits with resentment that tobacco is so addictive that most abusers fail to kick the habit. He says a friend with who he tended cattle introduced him to tobacco smoking. Initially, he says, he found it difficult to inhale the smoke that appeared to assail not only his chest and lungs but his nostrils too. What he was smoking was crushed, sun-dried tobacco leaves rolled in paper.
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