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Despite the controversy the anti smoking campaign continues to generate, Secretary, FCT Social Development Board,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], Mrs Blessing Onuh , says that the ban remains in force. In a phone interview she stated that even though there appears to be a lull, it does not mean that the FCT authority was sheathing its sword in the battle to make the thorny issue of smoking in public, a thing of the past. “At present we are in the process of fine-tuning the law banning smoking in public. A bill is presently before the national assembly aimed at making the law to conform to modern realities. [link widoczny dla zalogowanych].
The punitive measures against defaulters which is put at a ludicrous N200,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], needs to be overhauled thoroughly, so that it can serve as a tougher deterrent for defaulters. How can you fine people who flout the law N200,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], and expect them to take you serious? Once the law is reworked by the law makers,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], to make it more stringent, we will move out. once more to restrain erring persons who are found flouting the ban. That we are not doing that now actively does not mean that the ban on smoking in public has been lifted. It remains very much in place, “she states.
Men are more likely to report smoking than women at almost every age point,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], although both genders follow the same upward and downward smoking patterns across the age spectrum. The gender gap is particularly large for Americans who are now in their 20s and 30s. Black Americans are more likely than whites or Hispanics to smoke at most age points,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], with the largest gap among those in their 50s. Hispanics are less likely to smoke than whites or blacks at all age points up until about age 70. Smoking is particularly prevalent among black men, reaching 40% among those aged 25 to 29, and stays at or above the 30% level up until age 60.
1931: Cigarette Price Wars begin. Cigarettes sold for 14 cents a pack, 2-for-27 cents in the depths of the depression. 1940: Adult Americans smoke 2,558 cigarettes per capita a year, 2.5 times the consumption of 1930. 1940-1950: Muckraking pioneer George Seldes exposes the suppression of tobacco stories by the nation’s press As most tobacco-ad-laden newspapers refused to report the growing evidence of tobacco’s hazards, Seldes starts his own newsletter in which he covered tobacco. “For 10 years, we pounded on tobacco as one of the only legal poisons you could buy in America,” he told R. Holhut, editor of The George Seldes Reader.[link widoczny dla zalogowanych] online.
1947: “Smoke! Smoke! Smoke! (That Cigarette)” hits airwaves. Written by Merle Travis for Tex Williams,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych],[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], is national hit. 1950: In the May 27, 1950 issue of Journal of the American Medical Association, Morton Levin publishes first major study definitively linking smoking to lung cancer. 1950: American cigarette consumption is 10 cigarettes per capita, which equals over a pack a day for smokers. 1951: TV series “I Love Lucy” begins its run at 9:00 PM. It is sponsored by Philip Morris. The animated titles that open the show each week feature stick figures of Lucy and Desi climbing a giant pack of Philip Morris cigarettes. It is the top-rated show for four of its first six full seasons.