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The Africa Tobacco Control Regional Initiative (ATCRI) is a response to the challenge of well-focused, coordinated and well- resourced tobacco control programming in Africa. The Initiative being hosted by Environmental Rights Action/ Friends of the Earth Nigeria (ERA/FoEN) got take –off grant from the American Cancer Society (ACS) and Cancer Research UK.
ATCRI promotes the adoption, implementation and enforcement of effective in-country tobacco control policies, legislation and programmes across the African continent by providing the platform for information sharing, institutional support and capacity building among all tobacco-control stakeholders.
Nigeria: Speed up tobacco bill, group tells assembly
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By Ben Ezeamalu (234Next.com)
The lack lustre approach of the National Assembly to the speedy passage into law of the National Tobacco Control Bill may cause the nation more tobacco related deaths, according to the Environmental Rights Action/Friends of the Earth Nigeria, a non-governmental organisation.
The organisation made this call on the occasion of the 5th anniversary of the coming into effect of the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC), which had been ratified by over 168 countries including Nigeria since 2005.
Increased tobacco-related deaths
According to the World Health Organisation (WHO), tobacco related deaths stand at 5.4 million people annually and by projections will increase beyond eight million over the next two decades, with the majority of lives lost in the developing countries.
The WHO insists that strong worldwide enforcement and implementation of the FCTC could save 200
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