Smoking of shisha banned iIn Nigeria

The smoking of shisha has been banned in Nigerian while anyone caught smoking it will be punished. 

According tor the Nigerian Minister of Health, Prof. Isaac Adewole, the police and all other government agencies should enforce the ban on flavoured tobacco products including Shisha.

Adewole said this at a press conference in Abuja on Monday to mark the 2018 world No- Tobacco Day. 

Let me stress that the ban on tobacco products with characterising flavours is still in place and the ban includes shisha because it has flavour. I, therefore, urge the Consumer Protection Council and the law enforcement agencies to intensify arrest of defaulters, Adewole says.

Shisha smoking is a way of smoking tobacco, sometimes mixed with fruit or molasses sugar, through a bowl and hose or tube.

However, the minister said most of the flavoured tobacco were targeted at the youths and were as dangerous as cigarettes.