Showing posts with label National Tobacco Control Bill 2009. Show all posts
Showing posts with label National Tobacco Control Bill 2009. Show all posts
Friday, July 29, 2011

Smoking: Costly habit, captive addicts

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The World Health Organisation (WHO) has declared smoking injurious to health but...
Saturday, July 24, 2010

Why smoking feels good...

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By Olatunji OLOLADE Big girls don’t cry. Guess when they look like Abimbola Cole, they rise above little vanities, like tears. The 26-year o...
Thursday, May 20, 2010

OSUN BANS SMOKING IN INSTITUTIONS

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OSUN STATE government has outlawed smoking of tobacco in all its health institutions across the 3-0 local government areas and Modakeke-Ife ...
Tuesday, May 4, 2010

Pass tobacco control bill

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I write to call on the Senate Committee on Health led by Senator Iyabo Obasanjo -Bello and the leadership of the National Assembly to move ...
Monday, March 8, 2010

ERA pushes for passage of National Tobacco Bill

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By Collins Nweze The Environmental Rights Action/Friends of the Earth Nigeria (ERA/FoEN) has decried the delay by the National Assembly in t...
Friday, February 5, 2010

Blame Poor Taxation For Increase In Smoking – Expert

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by Catherine Agbo The ever growing rate of active smokers in the country has been linked to the inability of the federal government to impo...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Sunday, September 13, 2009

Cigarette smoke in carpet could affect babies

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WE'RE all aware of the dangers of second-hand smoke; only recently, a leading doctor said smoking should be banned in cars carrying chil...
Friday, August 28, 2009

Cigarettes: Ban production not smoking

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- Ahmed Raji MOST people detest smoking. Even the "Turkish" smoker knows that it is not a healthy habit. That smoking poses a grav...
Wednesday, May 27, 2009

Group chides Alao-Akala over BATN

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A Non Governmental Organisation, Journalists Action on Tobacco and Health (JATH) yesterday chided Oyo State Governor, Adebayo Alao-Akala ove...
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...
Monday, April 6, 2009

National Tobacco Control Bill - MAN vs. Tobacco Lobbyists

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MAN warns over Anti -Tobacco Bill - says action will affect country’s GDP The rank of those calling for caution by the Senate in the treatme...
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...
Friday, February 27, 2009

ERA Commends Senate over anti-tobacco Bill

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Wednesday, February 11, 2009

Senate Debates Bill On Tobacco Control, Sale

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by Hanson Okoh February 13, 2009 Senators on Wednesday considered legislation which seeks to control the manufacture, sale, advertising, pro...