25,000 underage Nigerians use tobacco products daily

25,000 underage Nigerians use tobacco products daily - Group

No fewer than 25,000 underage Nigerians use tobacco products daily, Nigerian activists under the aegis of the Tobacco Free Nigeria campaign says.

Ebiuwa Uwagboe, a campaign specialist at Gatefield, the public strategy group backing the campaign disclosed this in a statement in Abuja on Tuesday, April 16.

Uwagboe called on government to enforce the law banning the sale of tobacco products to the underage to check such smokers in the country.

“Every day, a whooping 25,000 children in Nigeria between the ages of 10 and 14 years use tobacco products.

“This equates to 17 children smoking every one minute.

“This is a result of the relative ease of their access to cigarettes and other tobacco related products, which are sold to them by vendors,” she said.

Uwagboe added that smoking among teenagers had devastating consequences including health related ones such as respiratory and cardiovascular diseases as well as reduced mental development.

“Children must be protected as they lack capacity and are often unwitting targets of the tobacco industry,” she said.

She noted that a recent survey released by Gatefield discovered that one out of every four vendors sold cigarettes to kids in the country.

She added that the Nigerian Tobacco act of 2015 prohibits the sale of tobacco products to minors under the age of 18 but that the law was not being implemented or enforced.

“While it is important to have the right laws, it is not enough. We need to enforce them now and ensure that the National Assembly passes the tobacco control regulations.

“This is what our campaign aims to do,” she added.

She further said that the #DontWaitRegulate campaign also released two public service advertisements to create awareness about the existing law and pressure government to properly enforce it with the passage of the regulations by the national assembly.

She said that a campaign petition page http://bit.ly/2VOaX9z was created while the campaign was present on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram via @Tobaccofreeng,” she said.

She said the advertisement featured individuals including Fakhuus Hashim, #ArewaMeToo founder; Ogor Ben-Iweagwu, a public hospital doctor; Anna Usman, a mother and entrepreneur; and Providence Anaro, a teenage freshman at the University of Abuja.

Meanwhile, Legit.ng previously reported that most internally displaced persons in various camps have become addicted to Tramadol, a synthetic (man-made) pain reliever (analgesic) which binds to receptors in the brain (narcotic or opioid receptors) and are important for transmitting the sensation of pain from throughout the body to the brain.

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The use of the drug which can be addictive have mostly been abused by many youth across Nigeria.

A report by Al Jazeera shows how many of the displaced persons living in camps after being forced to leave their hometown have become addicted to the use of the opioid drug.

One of these IDPs Aliyu Yusuf, who after an attack in Gwoza, his hometown by Boko Haram terrorists said he never heard of Tramadol until he arrived in an IDP in 2016.

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