Tobacco

25,000 underage Nigerians use tobacco products daily- Group

No fewer than 25,000 underage Nigerians use tobacco products daily, Nigerian activists under the aegis…

Alcohol, tobacco high cause of breast cancer – expert

A medical practitioner, Dr Toyosi Aibinuomo, on Wednesday warned against excessive consumption of alcohol and…

E-cigarettes, tobacco consumption increases risk of oral cancer- study

Scholars from University of California, San Francisco (UC San Francisco) have found that people who…

New alcoholic drinks, tobacco excise duty kicks off Monday

The new excise duty for alcoholic beverages and tobacco earlier approved by President Muhammadu Buhari…

Tobacco kills 7m people, gulps $1.4trn annually – WHO

Tobacco use kills more than seven million people annually and costs over 1.4 trillion dollars…

RJ Reynolds tobacco to pay $23.6 bn in damages to dead smoker's wife

A Florida state jury has ordered the RJ Reynolds Tobacco Company to pay $23.6 billion…

India sharply hikes 'sin tax' on cigarettes

NEW DELHI (AFP) - India's finance minister introduced a double-digit hike in "sin tax" on…