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Enforce Law On Public Smoking 

The Minister of Health, Dr George Sipa Yankey has directed the enforcement of regulations that prohibit the smoking of tobacco or cigarettes in public places.� He said this is because of the dangerous effect that tobacco smoking at such places has on the second hand smoker.

Speaking to the Times after the launch of the “World No Tobacco Day” in Accra, yesterday he said “law birth weights in babies, impairment in physical and intellectual development of children born to smokers, lung infections and other medical problems” are also proof of the effect second hand smoking brings. As such, it the unborn child is crucial to enforce to the last letter, the ‘No Tobacco Smoking at Public places regulation.

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