The Federal Ministry of Health always warns that tobacco smoking is dangerous to health, still the Federal Government allows tobacco producers to continue to flood the Nigerian market with all sorts of tobacco due to the so-called tax it collects from these companies at the expense of the citizens’ health! This can be likened to human ritualism in another dimension!
Why not start collecting tax from kidnappers and ritualists too? The same thing applies to beer and other alcoholic producers who flood the markets with all sorts of killer beers that can predispose consumers to get heart fats in two to three months that the heart could have got in two years.
People die like fowls while the ministry of health is investigating what is happening! Even though some Nigerian leaders are victim as well but they don’t care about the health of the citizens. Maybe, they are stakeholders in all the tobacco companies!
Romanus Ndehigwo,
Idiroko, Ogun state
