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Concern over delay of tobacco law 

Professor Agyeman Badu Akosa, Director-General of the Ghana Health Service (GHS); on Tuesday expressed regret about the delay in the passage of the law to the ban smoking in public places.

"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 dissemination seminar on a study conducted on the implementation of the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC) for religious groups in Accra.

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