Showing posts with label JATH. Show all posts
Showing posts with label JATH. Show all posts
Sunday, January 31, 2010

Lung cancer patients who quit smoking live longer

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Nigerian Compass People with early lung cancer who quit smoking could double their chances of surviving, a new study says. Until now, there ...
Tuesday, January 19, 2010

Cigarette smoking: Easy path to ill-health, death

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EBENEZER EDOHASIM, Features Editor EVERY one knows that smoking hurts, it causes sickness, disability and death. But the harmful effects of ...
Friday, January 8, 2010

Reducing Cancer begins with supporting Tobacco Control Bill

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When news that former First Lady, Mrs. Maryam Babangida had died from ovarian cancer in far away United States (US) filtered through the air...
Friday, December 18, 2009

Revolutionary case against tobacco use in Nigeria

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- Alexander Chiejina …Tobacco control bill yet to be passed by National Assembly Without a doubt, the health, economic, social, and environ...

TOBACCO SMOKING - a sure way to contract LUNG CANCER

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Tuesday, December 15, 2009

CANCER: Experts cite smoking as a cause

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Tuesday, November 17, 2009

Nigerians smoke 93 million sticks of cigarettes yearly

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- Yekeen Nurudeen The World Health Organisation (WHO) also said that eight million people die yearly of tobacco-related diseases worldwide. ...
Friday, October 30, 2009

Time to nail breast cancer

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By Olukorede Yishau Betty Anyanwu-Akeredolu woke up one day and had no cause to feel anything was wrong with her. She felt great and natural...
Thursday, October 8, 2009

Text messaging found to help smokers

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REUTERS October 8, 2009 05:01AMT Text messaging can help smokers quit the habit, according to an international study. A review of four trial...
Thursday, September 24, 2009

Health Rish Of Smoking...Death on the increase

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'One of the major perenial epidemic confronting mankind is death from tobacco' 'Of the three bilion people who smoke daily world...
Tuesday, September 22, 2009

Nigeria's smoking habit

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Play in either Real OR Windows Media players Tobacco kills close to five million people yearly worldwide with over 70 percent of deaths occu...
Tuesday, September 15, 2009

Smokers more prone to developing tuberculosis

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Although, smoking per se does not cause the TB disease, experts warn that those infected with the bacteria run the greater risk of developin...

SMOKING HAZARDS

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SMOKERS SHOULD REALIZE THAT IN ADDITION TO CAUSING THEMSELVES HARM. OTHERS MAY SUFFER AS A RESULT.
Wednesday, August 19, 2009

Do you watch your intake?

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Nigerian parliament debates tobacco restrictions

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New tobacco control legislation is being debated in the Nigerian parliament with strong backing from anti-tobacco groups and health organisa...
Friday, March 13, 2009

Group chides Adedibu over tobacco bill

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A Non-Governmental Organisation, Journalists Action on Tobacco and Health (JATH) has criticized the Chairman, Senate Committee on Industries...
Wednesday, March 4, 2009

Group urges Senate to pass anti-tobacco bill

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A Non-Governmental Organisation, Journalists Action on Tobacco and Health (JATH) has urged the Senate to speed up the passage of the 2009 Na...
Sunday, February 1, 2009

Introducing: Nigeria National Tobacco Control Bill 2009

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The Nigeria tobacco control bill is a comprehensive law when passed to regulate the manufacturing, advertising distribution and consumption ...