The Chief Executive Officer of the Food and Drugs Authority (FDA), Mrs Delese Mimi Darko, says there is no proof that smoking of water-pipe tobacco, commonly called shisha, and electronic cigarettes are safer compared to the regular cigarette sticks. “Do you know that an hour’s session of shisha amounts to smoking 100 to 200 sticks of cigarette?” “It really saddens my heart to see well known people in society recklessly smoke shisha on social media platforms just to be in the trends. “What do we think we are teaching our future generation?”

“As role models, we all need to support and play our role to fight this global tobacco disease pandemic,” [...]