As a staunch anti-smoking advocate, President Duterte will leave a lasting legacy when he signs the vape bill into law as millions of Filipino smokers will now have a less harmful option to move away from cigarettes if they find it hard to quit, four prominent Filipino doctors said.
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Health professionals have been advised to offer smokers help to quit, because smokers advised to quit were at least five times more likely to commit to quitting.
The advice came at a meeting of stakeholders in Lagos to commemorate this year’s World No Tobacco Day.
Experts said that the Nigerian government must incorporate tobacco cessation advice into primary healthcare services.
Dr Francis Fagbule of the University College Hospital (UCH), highlighted a recent secondary analysis of the 2012 Global Adult Tobacco Survey (GATS) conducted across Nigeria in an ongoing collaborative study between efako Makgatho Health Sciences University (SMU) represented by Prof Lekan Ayo-Yusuf and UCH represented by Dr Fagbule.