Nigeria: Will Tobacco Control Bill Be Passed?

24 July 2014
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The varying arguments at the recent one-day public hearing on the tobacco control bill may have introduced a new twist to the debate on the bill's passage.

Are the proponents of tobacco control just? Is the manufacturing or sales of the product illegal? What will be the outcome of the tobacco control bill awaiting passage at the National Assembly? These and many other questions came up last week in Abuja a one-day public hearing on the tobacco control bill.

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