Smoking Africa: Recent Episodes
Kwame Ampomah
The theme of the world no tobacco day 2024 is Protecting Children from the tobacco Industry inference.
A little advice to the youth on tobacco smoking and drug abuse. Thank you Awal for the insight. #jaishi🇬🇭 #smokingkills🚭
NCDs kill an estimated 86,200 persons in Ghana each year with 55.5% of them aged less than 70 years and 58% of males being affected. In Ghana, NCDs account for 43% all-cause mortality, with major NCDs such as heart disease, stroke, diabetes, cancer and respiratory disease becoming common in health facilities
A wonderful song telling us why we need to quit smoking and the healthy benefits. Keep listening..
Think the Ghana Education Service should let them continue their academic activities with a corporal punishment in the school ..
In Ghana likewise other countries, there no resources to assist smokers quit and each day they is a young kid somewhere starting to smoke and irrespective of their religious background, non smokers should .......
In this episode, I talked more about how a young smoker smokes for long and makes a decision to quit there's no resources to help/assist , yet these young kids face high stigmatization from their societies..
The harms of tobacco use are well-established. Tobacco causes 8 million deaths every year from cardiovascular diseases, lung disorders, cancers, diabetes, and hypertension.1 Smoking tobacco is also a known risk factor for severe disease and death from many respiratory infections. 2-4 In the COVID-19 pandemic, questions have been asked about clinical outcomes for smokers...