"Believe me, the electronic cigarette is not good and
just like cigarettes. The electronic cigarette produce good aroma and flavor.
If you smoke cigarettes, you only get a smell of smoke. But when you suck the
electronic cigarette, you get the sweet smell like strawberries and mango.
"The smell is the way popularize electronic cigarette
products," he said in his keynote address at the Conference of the
International Federation of Non-Governmental Organizations for the Prevention
of Drug and Substance Abuse Prohibition (IFNGO) and 26th ASEAN NGOs Workshop
IFNGO to-22 in Putrajaya on 17 November 2015.
Hence, Dr Mahathir, who is the patron IFNGO Foundation,
urged the public, especially parents instill values in against drugs among
children and young people so that they understand that drugs are harmful to
health and destroy their lives.
Dr Mahathir said that a more effective approach should be
adopted to tell young people that drugs can be used as a medicine and should
refrain from using it further.
"Parents must notify drugs will shorten their lives and
inculcate positive teachings to hate drugs. If they (the young generation) grew
up in compliance with these values, they will resist the temptation to use
drugs.
"If we all believe in the value system, we will not see
drug addicts in our society and we can eradicate drugs forever," he said.
Under British rule long ago, Dr Mahathir said the only
rickshaw drivers and workers took opium to relieve fatigue and sleep after a
day of work, but now, people take drugs because they are addicted and want to
change something in their lives.
"It's worse now because of the influence of drugs can
bring someone to a crime such as theft and murder. For example, if a boy is not
given money by the mother or father to buy drugs, he would not hesitate to kill
them.
"In order to get drugs, he would steal the money and in
the process steal, if he is prevented, he will use weapons to kill," said
Dr Mahathir.
Dr Mahathir also called on the international community to
work together to cripple drug trafficking, because the drug is cross-border
crime and the breeze at the border, the report said.
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