December 2009

Young People and Smoking

Vol 17. No. 4

Front Cover

• Young People and Smoking

Inside this Issue

• Young People and Smoking
• Poems (page 5)
• Newsreel (page 7)
  • Public Health Nurses Trained
  • Covenant University Students Visit AHI
  • Peer Educators and Healthcare Providers Trained in Ogun and Akwa Ibom States
  • LEAP Africa Rewards Excellence
  • LSACA Commemorates World AIDS Day
• Special Report (page 11)
  • The 16th Annual Teenage Festival of Life – TFL 2009
• Dear Diary (page 14)
• Body Awareness (page 15)
  • Alcohol – You and Your Body
• Watch Your Manners (page 16)
  • Communication Ethics
• Dear Aunty (page 17)
• True Life Story (page 18)
• Success Digest (page 20)
• Book Review (page 20)
  • “Trafficked” by Akachi Adimora-Ezeigbo
• Profile of a Role Model (page21)
  • Prof. Akachi Adimora-Ezeigbo – Writer, Lecturer, and Administrator
• Personal Hygiene (page 22)
• Career Guide (page 23)
  • Do You Want to Be a Geologist?

Back Cover

• Resources (page 24)

Issue Information

Growing Up is published quarterly in Lagos, Nigeria by Action Health Incorporated (AHI).

AHI is a non-profit organization working in Nigeria to provide adolescents access to the much needed reproductive health education, life-planning skills and services as a major step towards addressing the high incidence of unintended teenage pregnancy, related school dropout, clandestine abortions, sexually transmitted disease/AIDS and related deaths.

Growing Up is available free of charge to teenagers and other individuals working to promote teenagers health and development. Readers are invited to contribute views, articles, letters, and photos for publication. Articles may be quoted or reprinted from Growing Up provided proper credit is given to AHI.

All correspondence should be addressed to:

The Editor, Growing Up
Action Health Incorporated
PO Box 803, Yaba
Lagos, Nigeria

Special Thanks

This edition of Growing Up was produced with support from the support from the Population Programme, MacArthur Foundation, Chicago, Illinois.