Tobacco control: Over 80 CSOs reject unhealthy amendment bill

The Nigerian tobacco-control community has rejected a bill seeking to amend the National Tobacco Control Act (NTCA) 2015, describing it as a catastrophic reversal of public-health gains and a wicked attack on young people and future generations.
In a joint statement issued on Thursday, the coalition declared that the bill must not advance, regardless of its current administrative stage after passage through the National Assembly. It called on the relevant legislative committees to withdraw the bill immediately and urged President Bola Ahmed Tinubu to withhold assent should the text be presented for executive approval.
The coalition argued that the National Tobacco Control Act (Amendme...