Nigeria: Tobacco Control-Before SDGs Go The Way Of MDGs
December 17, 2018: The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) conceived in 2015 by leaders from 193 countries including Nigeria seeks a clearer path of ridding the world of poverty, hunger, and the catastrophic effects of climate change.
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Uganda: Club manager held over shisha
December 16, 2018: It is alleged that Police in conjunction with the Uganda National Health Consumers Organisation (UNHCO) conducted on operation in which Nguse and two of his customers, Kenneth Wasswa and Amir Tumusiime, who were found smoking shisha were arrested.
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Ethiopia drafts stringiest tobacco law
15 December 2018: To regulate food safety in production, trade, eateries. In a bid to prevent the public from a devastating health consequences attributed to tobacco products, the Ethiopian government is set to introduce a stringent law that will restrict the tobacco industry from having any interference and ...
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EGYPTIAN MP PROPOSES FINES FOR ‘UNREGULATED SHISHA SMOKING’
Decembre 13, 2018: If you're caught smoking shisha twice in a row, you'll get fined double the amount. Egyptian MP, Khaled Hanafy, has called for shisha smokers in Egypt to be penalised, as he believes that the popular pastime has reached epidemic proportions, reports Al Shurouk news.
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