The Ghana Health Service has expressed worry over the rate at which the youth are using Shisha and has hinted of plans to ban its use.
The Service’s Research Officer, Divine Darlington Logoh who revealed this indicated that research has indicated that there is a swift switch from smoking traditional cigarette to electronic cigarette and Shisha.
Divine Darlington Logoh, who was speaking at the World Conference on Tobacco held in Cape Town, South Africa, noted that it was important to ban the smoking of shisha as the trend was becoming alarming.
He said “The FDA does not have the regulation right now to control the smoking of shisha and electronic cigarette. However, we’re working with the Ministry of Health to ban shisha and electronic cigarette. Shisha use is more harmful than cigarette, if you puff one from that tube it’s equal to one full cigarette that is smoked. It is more dangerous than cigarette, so with that alone as well as public health is concerned we’re using that to ban it outright in Ghana. By the middle of this year, that surely has to be done”.
Source:a1radioonline.com/Ghana
