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Talking tobacco with Dr Mbongwe

World no-tobacco day – ‘Commit to Quit’ Dr. Bontle Mbongwe is the esteemed recipient of the 2018 International Network for Women Against Tobacco (INWAT) Achievement Award, the WHO Director General’s award for leadership in global tobacco control, University of Botswana’s Head of Environmental Health Programmes. This week Dr. Mbongwe sat down with Voice Woman to […]

Exposing children to smoking is like suffocating them

12 May 2021 - 06:59 Public health experts warn that smoking not only has devastating health effects, but its economic impact is huge. Image: 123RF/Oleg Gavrilov A leading child health specialist has described the exposure of children to second-hand cigarette smoke and other electronic nicotine delivery devices, such as e-cigarettes and vapers, as similar to squeezing life out of children and taking the breath out of their lungs. Prof Anthony Westwood, a retired paediatrician from Red Cross Children’s Hospital and lecturer at the University of Cape Town s department of child and adolescent health, said exposing children to nicotine not only denied them a choice not to get addicted, but could also have devastating consequences to their developing brains.

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