In an address yesterday to labor leaders and trade union representatives to mark International Workers? Day, President Hip?lito Mej?a said that he was concerned about the cost of basic items for ordinary workers and that he was working hard to find a better supplier of domestic cooking gas to make the price more accessible. He added that social ills begin in the home and called on people to give up what he referred to as ?vices?, such as gambling, drinking and smoking. “The many problems this country has begin in the home, which is the smallest unit of society,” he told those assembled, adding that he had never spent a cent on a lottery ticket, nor does he drink, ?and it hasn’t killed me”.