Showing posts with label NTCA. Show all posts
Showing posts with label NTCA. Show all posts
Monday, March 26, 2012

Conference raises concern over fate of Tobacco Control Bill

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Many participants at the World Conference on Tobacco or Health (WCOTH), which ended in Singapore at the weekend, are worried that several m...
Thursday, February 4, 2010

Group wants ban on sale of cigarettes near schools

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By Ayodeji Moradeyo The federal government should ban the sale of cigarettes near institutions of learning in the country, a non- government...
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 ...
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. ...
Monday, October 26, 2009

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Friday, October 16, 2009

BRITISH AMERICAN TOBACCO INTENSIFIES INDIRECT ADVERTISING

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By Seun Akioye Dominant tobacco manufacturing company in Nigeria, the British American Tobacco Nigeria (BATN) has intensified its Corporate ...
Wednesday, October 14, 2009

News Alert: Osun State

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Osun State government has successfully passed the law prohibiting smoking in public places within the state. The Journey... More detail to c...
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

SMOKING HAZARDS

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SMOKERS SHOULD REALIZE THAT IN ADDITION TO CAUSING THEMSELVES HARM. OTHERS MAY SUFFER AS A RESULT.
Monday, September 14, 2009

Smoking accounts for about one in five Cancer deaths

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Tobacco smoke causes 90 percent of all Lung Cancers. Thanks to falling smoking rates in most countries of the world. Fewer men than ever are...
Tuesday, April 21, 2009

NIGERIA VERSUS BIG TOBACCO

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On February 4, 2009, the National Tobacco Control Bill 2009 scaled through Second Reading at the Senate. The Bill sponsored by Senator Oloru...
Wednesday, February 25, 2009

NIGERIA: THE HEALTH, ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL MENACE OF SMOKING - TIME FOR CONCERTED ACTIONS

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Written by Dr Olusegun Fakoya Saturday, 04 October 2008 From available information, it appears as if the Federal Capital Territory remains t...
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 ...