“Do you know that an hour’s session of shisha amounts to smoking 100 to 200 sticks of cigarette? Shisha — also known as hookah — is tobacco that is usually fruit-flavoured, and smoked through a glass-bottomed pipe filled with water. Mrs. Delese Mimi Darko made this known when she was speaking at the national commemoration of the 34th World No Tobacco Day at Nsawam in the Eastern Region. Globally, No Tobacco Day is marked on May 31 every year by the World Health Organization and its global partners to highlight the harmful and deadly effects of using tobacco and to discourage its use among people. She said this worrying trend, according to the latest Ghana Youth Tobacco Survey, also indicated that the figures are among young female adults than males.
