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FG To Enforce Law Banning Smoking In Movies

Oluwatoyin Mathnuel Publisher insightmagonline

    The federal government, with stakeholders in the movie and entertainment industry, plans to enforce the law banning smoking in movies.

Adedayo Thomas, Executive Director of the National Film and Video Censors Board (NFVCB), made this known on Saturday at a stakeholders’ roundtable in Lagos.

According to PeoplesGazette, The roundtable focused on the National Tobacco Control Act 2015 and the National Tobacco Control Regulations 2019 in Lagos, as they relate to the movie and entertainment industry.

Mr Thomas said the engagement is geared towards ensuring that practitioners in the movie industry adhered to no-smoking laws in Nigerian movies, among other relevant laws of the country.

The meeting was hosted by the NFVCB and with technical support from the Corporate Accountability and Public Participation Africa (CAPPA).

The NFVCB boss posited that the board and the Federal Ministry of Information and Culture were worried about the growing evidence linking the entertainment industry with the increasing tobacco use and its impact on public health.

He stated that NFVCB prioritised classification of movies with smoking scenes and tobacco depiction and would ensure these were fully enforced.

Mr Thomas said the existing national legislation does not sufficiently capture the emerging alternative products of tobacco, such as E-cigarettes, Shisha, among others.