Tobacco control in Nigeria- policy recommendations

Major strides towards national tobacco control have been made since Nigeria became signatory to the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC) in June 2004. The Nigerian senate passed a bill on March 15, 2011 which is expected to be signed into law shortly, to regulate and control production...

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Autores principales: Agaku, Israel, Akinyele, Adisa, Oluwafemi, Akinbode
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2012
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Letter to the Editor
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3433343/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22713586
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1617-9625-10-8
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description Major strides towards national tobacco control have been made since Nigeria became signatory to the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC) in June 2004. The Nigerian senate passed a bill on March 15, 2011 which is expected to be signed into law shortly, to regulate and control production, manufacture, sale, advertising, promotion and sponsorship of tobacco or tobacco products. This paper highlights how the proposed tobacco control law provides a unique opportunity to domesticate the WHO FCTC, expand on smokeless tobacco regulation and develop a science base to improve tobacco control measures in Nigeria.
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spelling pubmed-34333432012-09-05 Tobacco control in Nigeria- policy recommendations Agaku, Israel Akinyele, Adisa Oluwafemi, Akinbode Tob Induc Dis Letter to the Editor Major strides towards national tobacco control have been made since Nigeria became signatory to the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC) in June 2004. The Nigerian senate passed a bill on March 15, 2011 which is expected to be signed into law shortly, to regulate and control production, manufacture, sale, advertising, promotion and sponsorship of tobacco or tobacco products. This paper highlights how the proposed tobacco control law provides a unique opportunity to domesticate the WHO FCTC, expand on smokeless tobacco regulation and develop a science base to improve tobacco control measures in Nigeria. BioMed Central 2012-06-19 /pmc/articles/PMC3433343/ /pubmed/22713586 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1617-9625-10-8 Text en Copyright ©2012 Agaku et al.; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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