Miss Patience Ocloo of the Community Health Support Team (CHEST) at Alajo, a suburb of Accra has called on chiefs, religious and opinion leaders to assist in creating awareness on the effects of tobacco use.
She said tobacco smoking causes health problems such as heart and respiratory diseases, lung, oral and throat cancers as well as infertility and brings about poverty and death.
Miss Ocloo made the appeal at a community forum on Saturday at Alajo, organized by Vision for Alternative Development (VALD), a non-governmental organization. VALD is into campaigning against tobacco use and sensitization on the Tobacco Control Measures of the Public Health Act (Act 851).
The programme was supported by the Norwegian Cancer Society (NCS).
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