BEWARE!! Do You Smoke Weed? Senates Finally Makes Move To Ban It

BEWARE!! Do You Smoke Weed? Senates Finally Makes Move To Ban It Infocenter September 25, 2014 Naija News 39 NLS BEWARE!! Do You Smoke Weed? Senates Finally Makes Move To Ban It Cigerette Smoking BEWARE!! Do You Smoke Weed? Senates Finally Makes Move To Ban It The Senate has begun moves aimed at permanently banning the manufacturing, consumption and promotion of tobacco in Nigeria. But the development generated controversies among senators,
yesterday, during debate on a bill to that effect just as the Senate President, David Mark, lamented that powerful individuals who were against the ban and regulation of tobacco in the country influenced Presidency to withhold assent on a similar bill sponsored and passed by the 6th Senate. Senators, who spoke during debate on the bill which was presented by the Chairman, Senate Committee on Health, Senator Ifeanyi Okowa, PDP, Delta North for deliberation, were sharply divided. He said: “The essence of the Bill is to highlight the dangers inherent in smoking and it also seeks to regulate advertisement about smoking. We have gone one step further to ban it also but when it goes to public hearing, then we will get public opinion on that.