A man has been arrested for ordering 90 tablets of the anti-impotence drug Viagra from the Bahamas via the Internet without a proper import licence.
The seizure brings to 12 the number of such cases detected by Customs officers at the airport this year - half of them committed this month.
The biggest seizure involved a mail order of 17,000 Viagra tablets early this month, a spokesman for the Customs and Excise Department said yesterday. No one was arrested.
A 49-year-old man was arrested yesterday after Customs officers at the airport seized the pills in an express parcel from the Bahamas. Last week, a 29-year-old man was arrested for allegedly ordering 45 Viagra tablets from the United States through the Internet.
Doctors have warned that men are gambling with their lives if they buy Viagra without medical advice. Dr Andrew Yip Wai-chun, a consultant urologist at Kwong Wah Hospital, said: 'This is a dangerous practice.'
Dr Duncan Ho Hung-kwong, the senior medical officer in cardiology at Queen Elizabeth Hospital, said people should be cautious about taking drugs 'with significant side effects that may cost their lives'.