A wide prevalence of tobacco use and its negative health effects, currently lead to more than eight million deaths each year worldwide and 600 million trees lost to tobacco farming, the Corporate Accountability and Public Participation Africa (CAPPA) has stated.
This is even as he called on the federal government to incentivize farmers to quit tobacco farming.
CAPPA executive director, Akinbode Oluwafemi, who made the call at an event organised by CAPPA to commemorates World No Tobacco Day, in Lagos, said the experiences shared by former tobacco farmers from Oke-Ogun highlight the regrettable truth of how the tobacco industry often treats these crucial contributors to their global supply chain as disposables.
