Showing posts with label WNTD 2012. Show all posts
Showing posts with label WNTD 2012. Show all posts
Saturday, June 30, 2012

Campaign Against Tobacco Smoking

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THIS year’s World No Tobacco Day (WNTD) held recently has again brought to the fore the necessity to seriously address long-standing iss...
Friday, June 1, 2012

Nigerians at risk of looming tobacco epidemic

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In recent times, the issue of uncontrolled tobacco use has continued to attract comments from public health experts globally. This is s...

UNSIGNED BILLS: Mark hits back at Jonathan

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Senate President David Mark yesterday took on President Goodluck Jonathan over his failure to assent to some bills passed by the...
Thursday, May 31, 2012

Tobacco: Still the ruthless killer

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TODAY, May 31, is “World No Tobacco Day” (WNTD). First observed in 1987 following a motion passed by a cabinet of the World Health Assembl...

Whither Nigeria's Tobacco Control Bill?

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Wednesday, May 30, 2012

Tobacco bill, big test of Jonathan’s promise – Oluwafemi

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Akinbode Oluwafemi Akinbode Oluwafemi, Director, Corporate Accountability and Campaigns of Environmental Rights Action/Friends of t...

'Nigeria's tobacco control bill is missing'

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One year after the House of Representatives concurred with the National Tobacco Control Bill after it was passed by the Upper House, the b...
Monday, May 28, 2012

STAKEHOLDERS ROUNDTABLE ON THE IMPLEMENTATION ON THE NATIONAL TOBACCO CONTROL BILL

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‘How tobacco firms are hurting our health system’

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Ahead of this year’s World No Tobacco Day which is marked every May 31, Akinbode Oluwafemi, director of Administration and Corporate Acc...
Thursday, May 24, 2012

Doctors urge FG to adopt smoking cessation programmes

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In a bid to reduce the ever in-creasing number of diseases and deaths caused by smok-ing, doctors under the auspices of the World Asso...

Who wants Tobacco Control Bill dead?

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In one week, it will be exactly one year since the National Assembly passed the National Tobacco Control Bill. But as the world awaits ano...
Wednesday, May 23, 2012

ERAFoEN demands presidential assent on Tobacco Bill

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President Goodluck Jonathan As governments and public health advocates plan towards this year’s World No Tobacco Day (WNTD) which...

Health experts want smoking cessation at all levels

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Irked by rising number of deaths and diseases associated with smoking, health experts have stressed the need for government at all lev...

Environmentalists beg Health Minister to save tobacco Bill

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Urges Jonathan to sign one-year-old Bill The Environmental Rights Action/Friends of the Earth Nigeria (ERA/FoEN) yesterday urged the...
Thursday, May 17, 2012

Jonathan urged to sign Tobacco Bill

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President Goodluck Jonathan The Environmental Rights Action (ERA) has appealed to President Goodluck Jonathan to sign the Natio...
Wednesday, May 16, 2012

Tobacco bill: ERA/FoEN demands presidential assent

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As governments and public health advocates plan towards this year’s World No Tobacco Day (May 31) the Environmental Rights Action/Frie...