Mr Ibrahim urged relevant authorities to intensify monitoring and sanction erring cigarette retailers.
The new drive, known as the ‘3 by 35’ Initiative, urged governments to boost the real prices of these products by at least 50 per cent by 2035.
The WHO official said no fewer than 146,000 people die from tobacco-related causes in the African Region each year.
Germany, which is among the EU members with the weakest smoking restrictions, abstained from the vote in Brussels on the non-binding recommendations.
Nigeria’s headline inflation rate declined to 33.40 per cent in July, says NBS amid President Bola Tinubu’s harsh economic policies.
WHO has recommended a comprehensive set of tobacco cessation interventions in its first guidelines on tobacco cessation.
“But when he took that quest for knowledge to a gun range, picked up a gun, handled the ammo and fired it, he went from student to criminal,” said the court.
“Kids are being recruited and trapped at an early age to use e-cigarettes and may get hooked on nicotine,’’ WHO chief said.
According to the report, the figure of 1.72 per cent is higher than the 24.08 per cent recorded in July 2023.
Fiji’s health ministry said this causes the country an economic loss of millions of dollars due to healthcare costs and productivity losses.
