It is reported that Mr. Sakhya Nanayakkara, Chairman of the National Board of Control of Dangerous Drugs, said that the use of tobacco among school students has increased.
The chairman of the National Board of Control of Dangerous Drugs who commented further in this regard,
“Although there has been an increase in the use of ice in Sri Lanka in the last 3 years, everyone has now accepted that there is some kind of control within this 6-month period. When we gather information from the police reports, the reports of the Dangerous Drugs Control Board, and the school system, we can see that there is control. That. The arrival of this ice drug in the school system has been completely stopped. But the problem in the schools is that smokeless tobacco is used among a certain group of students. Keeping that tobacco in the mouth is also very harmful. It is the gateway to other drugs. Therefore, the school system Although ice and heroin did not come in, most of the time when they started with things like tobacco, the tendency of them to leave school and turn to drugs increases.”
