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Youth in Anti-Public Smoking March 

Jump to full article: Gambia Journal, 2006-06-06
Author: The Gambia Journal

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Hundreds of demonstrating youth marking World Tobacco Day handed over a petition in the form of a banner called for the enforcement of the Anti-Public Smoking law. The youth, led by Speaker of the National Youth Parliament, Lamin F. Bojang, handed over the banner to the Speaker of the National Assembly who is expected to, in turn, hand it over to the Inspector General of Police. Smoking in public was legislated against since June 1998 but the law remains widely unrecognized and few even can remember it.

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