Ghana joins the rest of the world to observe World Tobacco Day, a day set aside to sensitize tobacco users of the dangers it poses especially in this COVID-19 era.
This year’s World’s Tobacco Day is on the theme “Commit to quit”,
The use of tobacco in the COVID-19 era can be very detrimental to one’s health due to the effects smoking or using tobacco has on the respiratory system.
The immune system is adversely affected by the usage of tobacco which eventually diminishes the functions of the lungs and exposes its users to respiratory infections and likely COVID-19 since it’s also an infectious disease that targets the lungs.
In Ghana, tobacco is commonly consumed in the form of cigarettes and cigars even though the various brands indicate boldly on packages the dangers of tobacco usage, its users continue to patronize these products.
Ghana News Agency (GNA) took to the streets of Accra to enquire about Ghanaians views on the use of tobacco and its effect.
Madam Grace Opoku, a tobacco wholesale vendor at Accra Central told GNA that she is not oblivious of the effect her trade has on people but that’s her business and her only means of fending for her family.