Crime

Tobacco consumption kills 16,000 persons yearly in Nigeria

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7 years ago

June 2, 2019

Second degree smoking has been identified to be harmful to non-smokers of cigarette. The harmful danger of tobacco consumption has been traced to loss of thousands of lives in Nigeria.

National Daily learned that Professors of pediatrics in Nigeria at a news conference marking World Tobacco Day decried that babies are the highest casualties of second degree smoking resulting in death.

The professors had declared that over 16,000 persons die yearly from tobacco consumption in Nigeria. The health experts stated that using tobacco during pregnancy causes premature birth, still birth, including abnormal bleeding.

The professors of paediatrics, therefore, appealed to Nigerians to say no to tobacco consumption