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The legal drinking age is 18, and isn’t enforced strongly. It is not uncommon to find young children being served alcohol in clubs. The rate of alcoholism is very high in
, and due to things such as lack of employment or any healthy pastime options, many people start drinking during their school-aged days.
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The legal smoking age is 18 and not readily enforced.
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The penalties for possession of illegal drugs are quite severe and are enforced. In recent years, there has been an increase in marijuana passing through , and many Namibians smoke marijuana, though it is highly illegal and can bring long jail sentences. Drug use in general is considered taboo and the penalties are harsh.
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Other strongly enforced laws are: cattle theft, which carries one of the harshest penalties, often more than 30 years in jail; rape and child molestation; murder, etc.
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One commonly invoked law is that of defamation. It is illegal for someone to defame you in public, by either making false allegations about you, spreading rumors, saying bad things about your family members, etc. People often file police report against other people who say bad things about them, and the accused must often pay a fine.
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