YUH TIMCHIA
Forty-four per cent of pupils in Cameroonian schools
have already had their first contact with tobacco and the gory statistic could
get worse, an anti-tobacco organization has warned.
The Cameroon Coalition against Tobacco further states
that 15 per cent of the people below the age of 15 were among 17.5 per cent of
the country’s smoking population.
The organization is pushing for anti-tobacco laws to
be urgently implemented in the country.
Cameroon became a signatory to the World Health
Organization Framework Convention for Tobacco Control (WHO FCTC) in May 2006.
Parties to the treaty, which obliges signatories to
cut back on tobacco consumption and exposure to secondary smoke, adopted the
