The Society of Family Physicians of Ghana is advocating the imposition of higher taxes on tobacco products in an attempt to curb what the group describes as a rising level of interest in smoking among young people, according to a GhanaWeb story.
Vice president Dr. Gerhard Ofori-Amankwah reportedly said that the society’s members had been examining a 2010 Ghana Youth Survey that had shown that 7.7 percent of young people in second cycle schools smoked.
He said that an increasing number of tobacco-related diseases were being reported at the country’s health facilities.
Ofori-Amankwah was speaking at a ceremony to mark World Family Doctors Day in Kumasi.