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Cigarettes kill 50 people per month in Fiji 

Up to 50 people die each month in Fiji due to cigarette smoking related illnesses. But the Ministry of Health says the most alarming, is that while the rate of smoking was increasing rapidly, the age group of smokers has been going down just as fast, with children as young as 10-years-old now smoking cigarettes. The ministry's tobacco control unit legal officer Rai Ligabalavu told Fijilive today that the World Health Organisation Framework Convention on Tobacco Control, which came into effect yesterday, was timely both economically and socially for Fiji. She said ministry would now be able to better control the consumption of cigarettes as oppose to being largely powerless in the past.

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