More than 600,000 who die annually from tobacco related diseases are nonsmokers exposed to second-hand smoke. Tobacco, the world’s leading preventable cause of death claiming the lives of 6 million people each year, is a slow but more often than not, sure killer.
Though the numbers of death from tobacco are not pretty, but they represent the hard facts about the effects of tobacco worldwide. Most of tobacco’s damage to health does not become evident until years or even decades after the onset of use.
There are currently no national restrictions on the advertising and promotion of tobacco use in Nigeria. A campaign has recently been launched to raise awareness on the various health risks of smoking and second hand smoke, as well as the toll of tobacco use on the Nigerian population. Tobacco Control Nigeria is a public health and policy change campaign project using Social Media to advance tobacco control and support the passage of a comprehensive Tobacco Control (TC) law compliant with the World Health Organization’s Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC).
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