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Jump to full article: BBC Online, 2009-09-22
Author: From Lagos, the BBC's Fidelis Mbah, reports.
Intro: Tobacco kills close to five million people yearly worldwide with over 70 percent of deaths occurring in developing countries including Nigeria where about 12 percent of the population are addicted to nicotine.
Now the Nigerian parliament seems to have responded with a tobacco control bill.
If passed, this could be the biggest tobacco crackdown in the history of Nigeria.
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