Nigeria: Tobacco Consumption Contributes 12% Deaths From Heart Diseases - NHF

17 May 2018

Tobacco use and second-hand smoke is a major risk factor for cardiovascular disease (CVD), including coronary heart disease, stroke and peripheral vascular disease; contributing about 12 per cent death from heart disease, the Nigerian Heart Foundation (NHF), has said.

Addressing journalists at a press briefing in Lagos recently to commemorate the World No-Tobacco Day 2018, themed 'Tobacco and heart disease', the Chairman, Executive Council, NHF, Dr. Olufemi Mobolaji-Lawal noted that according to the World Health Organisation (WHO), tobacco use kills seven million people worldwide each year and that number is predicted to grow unless anti-tobacco actions are increased.

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