Smoking Africa

The theme of the world no tobacco day 2024 is Protecting Children from the tobacco Industry inference.

A little advice to the youth on tobacco smoking and drug abuse. Thank you Awal for the insight. #jaishi🇬🇭 #smokingkills🚭

NCDs kill an estimated 86,200 persons in Ghana each year with 55.5% of them aged less than 70 years and 58% of males being affected. In Ghana, NCDs account for 43% all-cause mortality, with major NCDs such as heart disease, stroke, diabetes, cancer and respiratory disease becoming common in health facilities

Smoking is allowed in all public toilets in Ghana either you’re a smoker or not..

Think the Ghana Education Service should let them continue their academic activities with a corporal punishment in the school ..

In Ghana likewise other countries, there no resources to assist smokers quit and each day they is a young kid somewhere starting to smoke and irrespective of their religious background, non smokers should .......

In this episode, I talked more about how a young smoker smokes for long and makes a decision to quit there's no resources to help/assist , yet these young kids face high stigmatization from their societies..

The harms of tobacco use are well-established. Tobacco causes 8 million deaths every year from cardiovascular diseases, lung disorders, cancers, diabetes, and hypertension.1 Smoking tobacco is also a known risk factor for severe disease and death from many respiratory infections. 2-4 In the COVID-19 pandemic, questions have been asked about clinical outcomes for smokers...

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