Smoking in Nigeria

[1][2] In Nigeria, anti-tobacco communities are at the forefront of ensuring smoke-free public places.

Over 40 civil society groups, legal practitioners, and public health advocates stormed the Senate Hearing Room of the National Assembly Complex in Abuja on July 21 and 22 to present their memorandum in support of the National Tobacco Control Bill, NTCB 2009.

It also invokes a ban on all forms of direct and indirect tobacco advertising, prohibition of sales of cigarettes within a 1000 meter radius of designated non-smoking areas, and the formation of a committee that will guide the government on the issue of tobacco control in the country.

The NIGERIA NATIONAL TOBACCO CONTROL BILL blog,[6] managed by ERA/FOEN features articles and news stories on the development and progress of this all important legislation.

ERA is the Nigerian chapter of Friends of the Earth International (FoEI), the world environmental justice federation campaigning to protect the environment and to create sustainable societies.

A doctor with a stethoscope rejecting the offer of a cigarette.
An anti smoking print from Nigeria; produced in the 1950s.