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Jump to full article: All-Africa.com, 2007-06-07
Author: From: Edmond Gyebi, Tamale. Ghanaian Chronicle (Accra)
Intro: APART FROM being the most guinea worm endemic and most economically disadvantaged region in Ghana, the Northern Region is now rated as the region with the highest incidence of cigarette smoking and use of other tobacco products in Ghana.
According to Ghana Health Service Demographic Survey (2003), the Northern Region which is predominantly Muslim, is leading in cigarette smoking with 17.7% while the Upper West and Upper East Regions are also following in the second and third positions with 15.3% and 11.4% respectively.
Addressing a Press Briefing in Tamale to mark the '2007 World No Tobacco Day', the Northern Regional Health Promoter of the Ghana Health Services (GHS), Alhaji Abdul B. Yakubu expressed serious disappointment at the positions of the three Northern Regions on the Ghana Demographical and Health Survey.
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