9% of JHS pupils smoke – survey……Cabinet approves Tobacco Bill – Yiele Chireh
A survey by the Ghana Health Service between 2000 and 2009 has made a startling revelation, clamiming as much as nine per cent of pupils in basic schools are smoking tobacco.
This was disclosed at a media briefing as part of activities to mark the upcoming "World No Tobacco Day" on May 31.
According to the report, about 70 per cent of these pupils may die at age 45 if they do not stop the habit.
“So if we have about nine per cent of our population smoking, then already we are saying that 70 per cent of them would be dead by the time they reach 45, that is worrying,” Chief Psychiatrist Dr. Akwesi Osei has noted.
May 26, 2011 | Leave a comment | Permalink
News travels fast in these globalised times, but not so fast that New York's latest smoking ban covering all its 1,700 parks and 14 miles of beaches had reached Nanjing, the capital of Jiangsu province in China. Just hours after the new prohibition came into force, Fan Yon Tao, Nanjing resident and New York tourist, stood at the Bethesda Fountain in Central Park nonchalantly puffing on a Marlboro.
Yon Tao promptly stubbed out the cigarette and carefully placed it in a litter bin when informed by the Guardian that he had just performed an unlawful act liable to a $50 fine. "No smoking! Good, good!", he exclaimed in rudimentary English.........
Danish Amin, 26, of Catherine Street, Wesham, was one of the main UK organisers of the smuggling ring which was smashed when police seized the massive shipment, worth £323,000 in evaded duty, in December 2009.
Amin, who had been convicted of an almost identical offence in Germany less than a year earlier, was jailed for three years and two months on July 19 last year at Preston Crown Court, having pleaded guilty to tobacco smuggling...........
