Again, gazetting of the National Tobacco Control Regulations in December 2019 signaled the beginning of a change in the design of cigarette packs and other
tobacco products in Nigeria. Prior to the current graphic health warnings regime, cigarette/tobacco packs carried a text warning that read: ‘The Federal Ministry of Health Warns that smokers are liable to die young’.
Sadiq was a cigarette addict and chain smoker until he suffered a chronic respiratory disease which made him think twice. “After my lungs were examined at the hospital and I saw it’s bad state, I had to take to the advice given to stop smoking. It wasn’t easy, but as a matter of life and death issue, I had to give it up.”
A member of the Nigeria Tobacco Control Alliance, Paul Ashibel told me the tobacco text warning had pitfalls as it did not properly situate the statement as an admission of the damaging effects of tobacco products by tobacco companies. “Article 11 of the World Health Organisation’s Framework Convention on Tobacco Control, recommends that parties to the convention should ensure that product packaging and labelling do not promote tobacco products and should carry pictorial and text warnings which clearly describe the health dangers associated with tobacco use,” he said.
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