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• Holding Tobacco Firms Accountable: How Realistic?  

It is because of the heavy burden the product imposes on public health in Nigeria that some governments are seeking legal redress for compensations from some multi-national tobacco firms. But, would there be any let off until justice is done? . . .

The leading light in the legal gymnastics to compel tobacco companies to face the wrath of the law for the destructions there have caused over the years, is Mr. Tunde Irukera, an erudite attorney, who is very devoted to the case. Speaking to THISDAY in an interview recently, Irukera agreed that the judicial process might be tortuous and painstaking, but his team was prepared to go the whole hog because the issues involved are those of life and death that should not be compromised. . . .

Otherwise, the counsel stated that his team was prepared to prosecute the case to its logical conclusion expressing the optimism that the day of reckoning would surely come. He said the action of the FCT in banning public smoking was significant. He hopes that other states of the federation would explore avenues to ensure that they tow the exemplary line set by the FCT administration.

According to WHO, cessation by the 1.1 billion current smokers would lower tobacco deaths over the next few decades.

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