Nairobi MCAs want Sakaja to shut down ‘shisha’ smoking places

Nairobi MCAs want Sakaja to shut down ‘shisha’ smoking places

In Summary
  • Westlands, Kileleshwa, Lavington, Kilimani, South C and Lang’ata are some of the areas listed by MCAs to be selling the product.
  • Shisha is a glass-bottomed water pipe in which fruit-flavoured tobacco is covered with foil and roasted with charcoal.

Westlands, Kileleshwa, Lavington, Kilimani, South C and Lang’ata are some of the areas listed by MCAs to be selling the product.

Shisha is a glass-bottomed water pipe in which fruit-flavoured tobacco is covered with foil and roasted with charcoal.

The tobacco smoke passes through a water chamber and is inhaled.

Ochieng who is also the health committee chairperson said shisha had negative side effects.

“We are urging Sakaja to close down these Shisha joints,” he said.

In December 2017, the then Health Minister Cleopa Mailu banned shisha smoking saying it had encouraged the peddling of hard drugs.

Kenya became the fourth country in East Africa to prohibit shisha, after Uganda, Tanzania and Rwanda.

Source: The Star


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