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Crusade against Shisha is replicating a lesson of failure

War against drug is wasting money:  War against drugs is already known an aggressive approach and a failure in many ways. First, it is too expensive. Secondly, when the drug dealers are cracked down, the organized smaller groups blossomed, and black market and distribution system created; therefore, they are even harder to be cracked down. Thirdly, if a dealer is arrested, the other dealers are still working and at most, they shift to a different location, village, district, or city. Fourthly, war against drugs give an opportunity to law enforcement officers or even group of officers to corrupt and stay behind the dealers. This approach will still require continual fights forever. On Tuesday 25, 2014, on the Annual Meeting of NACD, his excellence Meas Vyrith told Cambodia daily 1 that in about a month NACD and provincial/municipal authorities have cracked down 90 bars which supply Shisha. Like attacking drug dealers, in 2012, 1,788 people were arrested. In 2013, 1,830 were arreste