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Jump to full article: All-Africa.com, 2005-07-13
Intro: If the government fully hearkens to the World Health Organisation, WHO, convention on tobacco control, then public smoking would eventually be banned in Cameroon.
After Members of Parliament, MPs, adopted the bill to that effect on July 6, the onus now rests on government; how far it will go in implementing the provisions of the convention.
The bill No 726/PJL/AN was to authorise the President of the Republic to ratify the WHO framework convention on tobacco control signed in Geneva on May 21, 2003.
According to an explanatory note, the international community signed the convention after acknowledging that the consumption of tobacco is a global problem with serious public health consequences.
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