₦airaland Forum

Today, May 31, marks World No Tobacco Day 2026, and this year's theme is both timely and alarming:

"Unmasking the Appeal: Countering Nicotine and Tobacco Addiction."

For many Nigerians, tobacco control still brings to mind the image of an elderly man smoking cigarettes at a motor park or a pack of tobacco hidden in a shirt pocket.

The reality in 2026 is very different.

The tobacco and nicotine industry has evolved.

Addiction is no longer being marketed only through traditional cigarettes. It is increasingly being packaged through colourful vaping devices, attractive flavours, sleek designs, social media content, nicotine pouches, and products specifically designed to appeal to young people.

Many teenagers who would never touch a cigarette are now being introduced to nicotine through products that look harmless, modern, and fashionable.

This is exactly what the World Health Organization wants the world to pay attention to this year.

The goal of the campaign is to expose the tactics used to attract children, adolescents, and young adults into nicotine addiction while strengthening tobacco control efforts and encouraging those already addicted to seek help.

In Nigeria, where youth unemployment, peer pressure, social media influence, and mental health challenges continue to affect many young people, the danger is particularly significant.

Many users begin out of curiosity.

Some start because their friends are doing it.

Others believe vaping is completely safe.

Unfortunately, nicotine addiction often begins long before people realise they are becoming dependent.

Health experts continue to warn that tobacco and nicotine use increase the risk of serious illnesses, including heart disease, stroke, chronic respiratory diseases, several forms of cancer, and other life threatening conditions.

This is where pharmacists have an important role to play.

Community pharmacists are often the most accessible healthcare professionals in Nigeria. For many people, the pharmacy is the first place they seek health advice before visiting a hospital.

Pharmacists help by educating the public on the dangers of tobacco and nicotine use, providing cessation counselling, supporting individuals trying to quit, recommending appropriate nicotine replacement therapies where available, and identifying people who may already be developing tobacco related health complications.

They also play a crucial role in protecting young people by correcting misinformation about vaping, e-cigarettes, and other emerging nicotine products.

Beyond individual patient care, pharmacists contribute to public health campaigns, school awareness programs, community outreaches, and advocacy efforts aimed at creating healthier and smoke free environments.

The message of World No Tobacco Day 2026 is simple:

The tobacco industry has changed its packaging, changed its marketing, and changed its products.

Nicotine addiction, however, remains the same.

Parents, teachers, healthcare professionals, policymakers, and young people themselves must work together to see beyond the attractive colours, flavours, and advertising.

Because sometimes the most dangerous addictions do not arrive looking dangerous.

They arrive looking attractive.

Happy World No Tobacco Day 2026.

Say No To Tobacco. Say No To Nicotine Addiction. Protect The Next Generation.

I finally quit smoking April 9th this year. A journey of over 30 years finally came to an end. I've never felt better, stronger and more focused than this. E come be like say I've been in a cage all these years.

In fact,it needs to be banned worldwide
🥺
Tobacco is a killer.

I repeat “NICOTINE” is a killer.
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Cigarettes, Vapes, Shisha and the host of others are destroyers of the society.💯

I am glad I never ventured this path. Many who smoke hard drugs started from cigarette. You can still stop it today by self-determination or by a rehabilitation. Many reasons why you should fight to break the addiction are stated below.


https://www.top5.ng/top-10-medical-and-non-medical-reasons-to-quit-smoking/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fpBzAkK8NYw

I hope we have a world no igbo(weed) day.

Tinubu will be a good ambassador for it.

I believe anything that has disadvantages,also have an advantage,

There is something medicinal in this nicotine of a thing cos even this tomatoes also have nicotine inside,
And why do virus always attack nicotine inside our body first?

Fishy things about the pharmacy industries

I use Bet9ja and sportybet tickets to wrap my weeds to smoke. Nah y I dey wound the bookies on a steady. I don't do cigarettes.🥱🥱


cc guobe

According to late nate dog,
Smoke week everyday

LIVINGICONREBOR:
I use Bet9ja and sportybet tickets to wrap my weeds to smoke. Nah y I dey wound the bookies on a steady. I don't do cigarettes.🥱🥱


cc guobe

In the real sense there is no such thing as ADDICTION to smoking. An unguarded or loose( not uncontrollable) appetite is what some people refer to as ADDICTION.
I started smoking 2020, and for years I have taken the process to learn about addiction, self control and indulgence.
Addiction has to do with a compulsive force that left the addict with no other choice than to indulge.

For smoking, there is no compulsive force pulling one to smoke( as a passé, I started smoking habit with Indian hemp before resorting to cigarettes), so I think I'm an authority to an extent when I talk in this area.

Instead of trying to quit smoking( which is nearly an impossible feat to achieve) rather build self discipline, self respect and add values to yourself, be determined to have control over your financial life and above all get to know God more( in my case, Jesus Christ)


Finally, noteworthily I am free from ashes. Smoke free

Bluna:
I finally quit smoking April 9th this year. A journey of over 30 years finally came to an end. I've never felt better, stronger and more focused than this. E come be like say I've been in a cage all these years.

How in the world did you do that ?

Bluna:
I finally quit smoking April 9th this year. A journey of over 30 years finally came to an end. I've never felt better, stronger and more focused than this. E come be like say I've been in a cage all these years.

I stopped mine last year December.
Feeling good now and coming up little by little

I started smoking when I was in ss1 that should be in 2006. I don't smoke weed na only cigarettes and the urge to smoke comes anytime I drink beer. I was so much addicted to cigarettes that I never see My self stoping it soon. But Las Las God did it for me and I stopped 🚭 smoking about 3 years ago which I never imagined my self stopping.. I remembered One of my guy calling me Benson because of the way I do smoke it.

Nb.. I didn't stop smoking just like that ooo.. I was feeling some pains in my heart during my time of smoking cigarettes so I assumed it was the cigarettes that I do smoke is the cause. So I said to my self that instead of cigarettes to kill me, I will be the one to kill it first. That how I stopped smoking till today. More than 3 years now. I know I will die one day but make e no be cigarettes that will kpai me. Thank God for everything.



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Runaway22:
How in the world did you do that ?

I will call it a divine intervention. No rehab, no counseling. Even many of my close associates still find it difficult to believe. But I've moved on for real. The way I feel better and healthier these days has also encouraged me never to look back. Na now I know say smoking is truly a silent killer.

I can't relate to this and I'll never relate to it anytime soon, so help me God

LIVINGICONREBOR:
I use Bet9ja and sportybet tickets to wrap my weeds to smoke. Nah y I dey wound the bookies on a steady. I don't do cigarettes.🥱🥱


cc guobe

Where u see sportbet shop

Sonofgod1990:
I started smoking when I was in ss1 that should be in 2006. I don't smoke weed na only cigarettes and the urge to smoke comes anytime I drink beer. I was so much addicted to cigarettes that I never see My self stoping it soon. But Las Las God did it for me and I stopped 🚭 smoking about 3 years ago which I never imagined my self stopping.. I remembered One of my guy calling me Benson because of the way I do smoke it.

Nb.. I didn't stop smoking just like that ooo.. I was feeling some pains in my heart during my time of smoking cigarettes so I assumed it was the cigarettes that I do smoke is the cause. So I said to my self that instead of cigarettes to kill me, I will be the one to kill it first. That how I stopped smoking till today. More than 3 years now. I know I will die one day but make e no be cigarettes that will kpai me. Thank God for everything.



Arsenal 3 vs PSG 0 ✅✅✅✅✅✅. Champions League final result

You later stopped cigarette for real.

Python25to30:
You later stopped cigarette for real.

Aswear. It wasn't easy my son

Python25to30:
Where u see sportbet shop

D guy is seriously on colos

Sonofgod1990:
Aswear. It wasn't easy my son

If you wake up for morning.
You dont feel no urge for real or u surpress them.
Secondly some habitual things u do when u smoke like smoking after eating dont they trigger some memory. I call those memory deadlift.

Python25to30:
If you wake up for morning.
You dont feel no urge for real or u surpress them.
Secondly some habitual things u do when u smoke like smoking after eating dont they trigger some memory. I call those memory deadlift.

There was a time I stopped smoking then after 3 months i wasn't having money to drink beer so I went back to smoking again. But I stopped smoking finally when I choosed it to be my New Year resolution. The day I stopped smoking I was even smoking at that moment been 31/12/2023. But immediately it turned to 11:59pm of that 31-12-2923 I throw the remaining cigarettes on me away till today. It wasn't easy but God did it for me

Risingblue008:
I believe anything that has disadvantages,also have an advantage,

There is something medicinal in this nicotine of a thing cos even this tomatoes also have nicotine inside,
And why do virus always attack nicotine inside our body first?

Fishy things about the pharmacy industries

I recently saw something on this. We need to always be aware that the WHO is basically run by Bill Gates and is there to push his agenda.... which is basically evil. When the WHO talks... we should sit up ... listen.. and try to figure out what they're up to. We can look back at COVID-19 and see the MO. I recently learned that nicotine basically prevents cancer from spreading. It _suffocates_ the cell. But that's natural nicotine as found in the leaves of a natural tobacco plant. For this reason....the commercial growing of tobacco in the US is highly regulated. The powers that be need you to contract cancer.... so they can profit in treatments etc. It only make sense for WHO to be condemning the intake of nicotine.... it messes up their agenda.
We're told the same about salt... do not take salt because salt bla bla bla ... and we repeat after them and do as we're told without question. Yet ... when we are rushed to the hospital emergency... before they even find out what's wrong... high blood pressure or what... first thing they do is pump saline ... salt water directly into our veins... bags! Explain. Creating a deficiency to cause you to be rushed to the hospital. Money must be made... by hook... or by crook.

I.cqme in peace..

Sonofgod1990:
There was a time I stopped smoking then after 3 months i wasn't having money to drink beer so I went back to smoking again. But I stopped smoking finally when I choosed it to be my New Year resolution. The day I stopped smoking I was even smoking at that moment been 31/12/2023. But immediately it turned to 11:59pm of that 31-12-2923 I throw the remaining cigarettes on me away till today. It wasn't easy but God did it for me

This means the urge was not really a problem for you.
Because me sometimes i just don't understand. Some say smoking is spiritual stuffs i kind of believe o. Cos that urge na war

Some fruit 🍓🍑 contain nicotine

If u don't want people to smoke..outlaw tobacco company

Now you knw whr I'm coming from,
They always look for means to market dier evil drugs

Originalsly:
I recently saw something on this. We need to always be aware that the WHO is basically run by Bill Gates and is there to push his agenda.... which is basically evil. When the WHO talks... we should sit up ... listen.. and try to figure out what they're up to. We can look back at COVID-19 and see the MO. I recently learned that nicotine basically prevents cancer from spreading. It _suffocates_ the cell. But that's natural nicotine as found in the leaves of a natural tobacco plant. For this reason....the commercial growing of tobacco in the US is highly regulated. The powers that be need you to contract cancer.... so they can profit in treatments etc. It only make sense for WHO to be condemning the intake of nicotine.... it messes up their agenda.
We're told the same about salt... do not take salt because salt bla bla bla ... and we repeat after them and do as we're told without question. Yet ... when we are rushed to the hospital emergency... before they even find out what's wrong... high blood pressure or what... first thing they do is pump saline ... salt water directly into our veins... bags! Explain. Creating a deficiency to cause you to be rushed to the hospital. Money must be made... by hook... or by crook.

I.cqme in peace..

For this Tinubu government if not for tobacco, weed, codein and alcohol person for don die since 2024..infact how do people dat dont take one of this survive in this county?

Python25to30:
This means the urge was not really a problem for you.
Because me sometimes i just don't understand. Some say smoking is spiritual stuffs i kind of believe o. Cos that urge na
war

My own is that I stopped smoking because the smoke has started giving me a Heath issue

Bluna:
I finally quit smoking April 9th this year. A journey of over 30 years finally came to an end. I've never felt better, stronger and more focused than this. E come be like say I've been in a cage all these years.

big cap

All these pipsqueaks be lying out they as$ and shyt

I am smoker. I smoke weed(sk,loud and so on except CO) and I also smoke cigarettes so much. I used to base mainly on weed but when I went to Dubai it was scarce to get so I started smoking cigarettes. Infact I didn't smoke cigarettes till like 3 months after I arrived Dubai. Almost everyone in Dubai smokes cigarettes, male and female. Even after I found a dealer for weed I bought it occasionally mostly when I get my monthly salary because weed is expensive there. I even resorted to smoking hashish with my Egyptian friend but I based mainly on cigarettes. I usually consume about a pack per day. I didn't look lean, I didn't lose weight, my lips didn't get unusually darker.

There is something evil and insane about human beings. You allow Tobacco companies to be set up. You collect taxes from them. They employ people. Then, you turn around and say No Tobacco Day. Why not just shut down Tobacco companies and ban the production and consumption of Tobacco worldwide?