What has mostly encouraged me to become addicted to tobacco was its low price

Mustapha (14 years)
“I know that it causes cancer and that some people call for banning it. Yet, if I abandon it, I must smoke cigarettes and the pack costs 200 dinars. I would need at least four cigarettes a day while only one bag of local tobacco costs  2 dinars and  enough for me. Even better, I could share it with my friends or any passer-by could give me one “sniff,” however it is very difficult for me to get a cigarette from anyone”.

Ali (18 years)
“I started my experience with “Saout” (tobacco) in my village and with the first “sniff” I was hit by a dizziness and nausea and with the second I felt nothing till I get used to it”.

Ziyed (16 years)
"I have been taking snuff for three years. I learnt it from one of my friends at school. We talked about tobacco and one gave me a “snuff.” I have been taking snuff from that day on. I tried to get rid of it because it is unsocial and uncivilized but I failed despite my repeated attempts”.

Akram (14 years)
«I began my first experience with tobacco when I was at the sixth level of primary school  and I learnt it from a pupil who is one-year older than me… When I informed my family, my father told me about the bad effects of tobacco which urged me to abandon it for two years. Yet, I returned to it and frankly speaking I feel now that abandoning it requires a strong will”.

Ahmed (17 years)
“When I do not find tobacco, I feel as if was psychologically and physically depressed and nervous to the extent that I might create problems with others without any reason... I find no embarrassment in requesting a snuff from any passer-by seeing that he shares this addiction with me”.

Asaad (13 years)
“I started taking tobacco snuff during a school course. I wanted to leave the course because I did not understand it but my friends asked me to stay and gave me a bag of tobacco. They asked me:” have you understood the course?” I replied “I do not know” and from that day on I have not stopped taking tobacco snuff”.

Kaîs (15 years)
« I have been taking tobacco snuff since I was in the second level of secondary school and I do not think presently of abandoning it because I consider it a normal practice among all Sudanese and it is sold in streets under the sight and nose of everyone”.