Expert Pushes for Policies to Control Tobacco Intake among Nigerians
Emma Okonji
A public health advocate and consultant with the Lagos State Ministry of Health, Godswill Iboma, has called on governments at the federal and state levels to come up with policies that will control tobacco intake among Nigerians, insisting that tobacco has no clinical benefits and can lead to preventable death.
According to him, every few years, Sweden captures global attention in public health, not necessarily because it has solved a problem, but because it has approached it differently.
“Sweden has become one of the most closely studied case studies in tobacco, having reduced its daily smoking rate down to roughly five per cent, among the lowest recorded anywhere in Europe, where the regional average sits closer to 24 per cent.
