"When the legendary Nelson Mandela made his famous quote ‘there can be no keener revelation of a society's soul than the way in which it treats its children' he most likely had the humanity-indicting apartheid system in mind. Were he alive now and a Nigerian, he would have replaced the last strand of the sentence with ‘the way in which it allows the tobacco industry, merchants of death, to toy with the lives and destinies’ of its children."
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Women's rights activistsWomen born in the 1970sChildren's rights activistsWomen activists from NigeriaWomen journalists from Nigeria
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"Our Threatened ‘Pikins” And The Tobacco Profiteers By Betty Abah", Sahara Reporters (July 20, 2014)
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