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• WHO convention on tobacco control ratified  

Dr Tamsir Mbowe, Secretary of State for Health and Social Welfare on Tuesday tabled before members of the National Assembly, the World Health Organisation Convention on Tobacco Control for ratification. The objective of this convention and its protocols, is to protect present and future generations from the devastating health, social, environmental and economic consequences of tabacco consumption and exposure to tobacco smoke by providing a framework for tobacco control measures to be implemented by the parties at the national, regional and international levels, in order to reduce continually and substantially the prevelance of tobacco use and exposure to tobacco smoke.

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