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Supporting the passage of the bill, the Chairman of the assembly’s Committee on Health, Silas Okunola, said the bill was necessary for regulating smoking in designated places, including shopping centres, restaurants, public toilets and cinemas

The findings of the committee states,” if tobacco regulation becomes excessively restrictive and legitimate producers close shop, smokers would continue to smoke. Demand would then be met via smuggled cigarette thereby transferring jobs and revenue to other countries