Abstract:
WHEREAS, scientifically proved that using tobacco is a risk factor
for disease such as cancer, respiratory disease, heart disease, stroke
and non-communicable disease as well as resulted to physical injury
and death WHEREAS, the number of tobacco users in Ethiopia and youth is high
that unless the youth protected from exposure and appropriately
regulated, high prevalence in tobacco users would inevitability
increase even more causing health problems for citizens escalating
their medical expense, the country’s expense to import medicine and
foreign exchange; it will also decrease productivity and impose heavy
burden on the economy by creating other damages.
