The Senate has on Wednesday, April 13, 2015 passed the
Tobacco Control Bill. According to the deputy senate president Ike Ekweremadu
who presided over the plenary session. The bill will ensure
effective regulation and control of production, manufacture, sale, labeling,
advertising, promotion and sponsorship of tobacco and tobacco products in
Nigeria.
The bill among other things specifies the places cigarette
smokers could smoke and areas where smoking is forbidden and also the
punishment to be meted out to defaulters when they smoke in non-designated
areas. Culprits could get up to six months in jail.
The bill states that owners of public places where smoking
is not allowed will be penalized if they fail to put up a "no smoking
sign" on their properties. The bill was sponsored by Delta state governor
elect and Senate Committee on Health Chairman, Senator Ifeanyi Okowa. The bill
now awaits the assent of President Jonathan.
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