Just a few months ago, the Environmental Rights Action/Friends of the Earth Nigeria (ERA/FoEN) raised the alarm on the growing rate of Shisha consumers in the c
According to the UN agency, “Contrary to popular belief, the smoke that emerges from a water-pipe contains numerous toxicants known to cause diseases such as lung cancer, heart disease and respiratory disease.”LEADERSHIP Sunday findings shows that the content of shisha, like cigarettes, includes nicotine, tar, carbon monoxide, arsenic, lead and other poisonous and cancer-causing chemicals
He said, “My concern is that despite the fact that the Ministry of Health and other major stakeholders like the NDLEA have warned against its harmful effects on users, yout5hs and teenagers are still abusing it. From all indication, I can say that there seems to be a national amnesia about the existence of a tobacco control law in Nigeria.
Truth must be told, the lust for shisha is hardly a joke in modern Nigeria as young Nigerians, mostly teenagers, plummet into addicts. Recent findings in Abuja, Kaduna, Kano, Anambra, Benin, Ekiti, Sokoto, Benue, Borno, Plateau, Lagos, and Ogun states reveal a high incidence of addiction among the youth. The relative cheapness and accessibility to the shisha items make it easy for the youth to acquire them.
Speaking on why she cannot resist smoking shisha, Blessing Johnson noted she cannot resist smoking shisha as it gives her joy and she loves smoking it.‘’If I should die today. I believe that it is God’s plan for my life. But I won’t die now by God’s grace. Dr. Abdullahi said shisha does damage the respiratory tract, creates respiratory irritation and accumulation of fluid in the lungs as well. He noted that people smoked shisha for much longer than they smoked a cigarette, adding that with one puff, shisha smokers inhaled the same amount of smoke as they got from a whole cigarette.
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