Tag: Tobacco Smoking
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3 notorious drug traffickers get 29 months prison sentence
Justice Nathaniel Ayo-Emmanuel of the Federal High Court, Ibadan, on Thursday sentenced three men to 29 months imprisonment for dealing in Indian hemp. The convicts are Azeez Olagboye, Kehinde Saheed and Taofeek Ajadi. In three separate judgments, Ayo-Emmanuel held that he convicted the trio based on the evidence before him. The judge sentenced Olagboye and…
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7 million deaths, but Nigeria is doing nothing to curtail Tobacco smoking
Data presented by The Tobacco Atlas has shown Nigeria is doing virtually nothing to curtail Tobacco smoking in the country. According to the data available on The Tobacco Atlas website, the country has done practically nothing in the years under review to warn Nigerians about the dangers of Tobacco smoking in media campaigns. The World…
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7 million deaths: WHO releases scary Tobacco smoking report
A new report by the World Health Organization (WHO) released today shows that smoking does not only kill 7 million people worldwide a year, but also scars planet earth through deforestation, pollution and littering. Details of the environmental cost of tobacco are revealed in a study released Wednesday by the World Health Organization, adding to…