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• "Somebody is sitting on tobacco law" 

The Director-General of the Ghana Health Service Professor Agyemang Badu Akosa says he believes the long delay in passing the law to ban smoking in public places is the doing of some interested party.

“Somebody is sitting on it, working so seriously to prevent the Tobacco bill from being passed into law and I want them to prove me wrong.”

He said it was sad that though many Ghanaians were in support of the campaign to pass the law that would among other things ban smoking in public places, the process was being delayed.

Prof. Akosa said this at a day's seminar on a study conducted on the implementation of the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC) for religious groups in Accra.

Present at the seminar were representatives from the Christian Council of Ghana, Catholic Secretariat, Federation of Muslim Councils, Ghana Muslim Mission, Charismatic Churches and Coalition of Muslim Organisations.

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