Re: The new tobacco bill

By virtue of item 21 of the Exclusive Legislative List of the 1999 Constitution, only the National Assembly is competent to legislate on poisons. Cigarettes are undoubtedly poisonous. To that extent the Lagos State Tobacco Control Law 2014 is ultra vires the Lagos State House of Assembly and is invalid and null and void. Barrister ABUBAKAR Sani, Abuja, +2348034533892