Tuesday, June 21, 2011

Ban Public Smoking in the City of Accra

Monstrous Malaria is not enough; nor TB nor AIDS; not even the doggone health insurance system. Our governments have waited a long time for Lung Cancer or its carcinogenic cousins to cut our numbers low before curbing public smoking.

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9 comments:

  1. Oh yes please! Can we ban public smoking already?! And while we're at it... can we check smoking and lung ca importation too??!!!

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  2. Huge step but a hard task to accomplish.

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  3. I picked a taxi from home and the man was smoking. He offed it and threw it away. Seeing my fear in him he said 'I don't know how much they charge and as a Christian I don't want to over-charge so how much do you pay', when I asked of the charge. He dropped me off and just when I turned I saw him lit another.

    I guess banning public smoking would be a great step in the right direction. The issue is most often it these lawmakers are culprits themselves and we have fewer health professionals or environmentalists in the policy-making coterie.

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  4. Kwame Mensa-Bonsu22 June, 2011

    Implementation Implementation! Hope it doesn't join the many many unimplemented on Gh's books..

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  5. Kwame Mensa-Bonsu22 June, 2011

    ooops.....unimplemented laws......

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  6. Yeh, a public campaign must go first...

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  7. Didi, yes, a hard task but achievable especially because Big Tobacco Biz would not pay counter-lobbyists in Ghana.

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  8. Nana Fredua-Agyeman, I do not know about the lawmakers being smokers but I suspect they have 'bigger' things on their minds.

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  9. Kwame Mensa-Bonsu, I agree. The legislation itself will not work. Maybe public pressure, cold stares, shunning and confrontation would be the vest way to go.

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