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One of the African oldest traditional of Tobacco chewing is back among the youth who include school going in Nairobi.
Those days youth walking in groups chewing miraa or discussing football are victim of tobacco which the hide in there pockets because some of them fear being noticed to be tobacco victims.
According to some of them who talked to media in Nairobi said that tobacco chewing is wonderful because it is cheap and also heals some sickness mostly homa wakati huu wa baridi.
They also claims that with high price of cig they prefer tombako which is and was commonly used by wazeee in African traditional and tumbako from Kamba awas among the most looked for as is still those days.
In 90s Tumbako was common with Mungiki youth who were against KANU leadership and were not spared by police officers.
According to available documentation there were few Africans women who chewed tumbako and those who chewed were old ones above 60 years and were the most hated members of the society., those who were known were old men and they way they back it was common and public.
Nairobi youth are packing it fashionably and you can not tell which youth is the victim because even they carry it in their cell phone holder.
The figure is sluggishly rising and unless solution is found the number can reach the pick because some youth can be chewing other subastance in the name of tumbako and is not known if girls are among them.
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