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Many Maldivians, especially parents and educators, have praised the Presidents stance, seeing it as a promise to save our children from the harms we endured. In a bid to involve the public in shaping the policy, President Muizzu took the unprecedented step of launching an online poll to seek citizens input on how the ban should be implemented
Large quantities of tobacco are also imported, from 30,000,000 to 35,000,000 pounds
"I would say it's shameful that the General Assembly and the Governors back then plugged deficits as one time fixes -- now there are even greater consequences than we realized." Margaret Kane, who was with the Rhode Island chapter of the American Lung Association at the time of the settlement and opposed the state tobacco bonds, and is now with Operation Clean Government, said she was shocked at the level of the state's refinanced debt