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Health CS Cleopa Mailu bans shisha smoking in Kenya

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December 28, 2017
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A reveller smokes shisha at a bar in Kisii town on December 25, 2017. The Health Ministry has banned shisha smoking in Kenya. PHOTO | BENSON MOMANYI | NATION MEDIA GROUP 

Health CS Cleopa Mailu bans shisha smoking in Kenya

The Ministry of Health has banned smoking of shisha in Kenya.

In a gazette notice, Health Cabinet Secretary Cleopa Mailu banned the importation, manufacture, advertising and sale of shisha in the country.

In the legal notice dated December 28, Dr Mailu warned that anyone found contravening the control of shisha smoking rules will be “liable to a fine not exceeding Sh50, 000, or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding six months, or to both.”

FINE

If the offence, contravention or default is of a continuing nature, a further fine not exceeding Sh1, 000 for each day it continues will be imposed as contemplated in section 163 of the Public Health Act.

“No person shall import, manufacture, sell, offer for sale, use, advertise, promote, facilitate or encourage shisha smoking in Kenya,” reads part of the notice.

Confirming the legal notice, Director of Medical Services Jackson Kioko said: “Our decision for the ban is informed by all aspects…from social to health and is also guided by scientific evidence of the negative impact of smoking shisha.”

This ban makes Kenya the third East African country to ban shisha smoking after Tanzania and Rwanda.

Other countries which have banned shisha are Pakistan, Jordan, Singapore and Saudi Arabia.

TOBACCO

Shisha includes tobacco products that may be flavoured or non-flavoured that are consumed using a single or multi-stemmed smoking instrument that contains water or other liquid through which the smoke passes before reaching the smoker and which the smoke passes before reaching the smoker and whose syrup tobacco content includes molasses, honey vegetable, glycerol and fruit flavours including apple, grape, lemon and mint.

The World Health Organisation recently revealed that smoking shisha poses grave health risks as the smoke of 100 or more cigarettes is inhaled in a single session.

“Cigarette smokers typically take eight to 12 cigarettes with a 40 to 75 millimetre puffs and inhale 0.5 to 0.6 litres of smoke. [This is] unlike shisha-smoking sessions which typically last 20 to 80 minutes, during which the smoker may take 50 to 200 puffs which range from about 0.15 to 1 litre each.”

Source: Daily Nation

 

 

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