Section 5: Functions of the Committee

The Committee shall-
(a)
advise and make recommendations to the Minister, where necessary, on the development and implementation of tobacco control policies, strategies, plans, programmes and projects, in accordance with the WHO Framework convention for Tobacco control, its implementing guidelines and protocols;
(b)
administer and manage the Fund of the Committee;
(c)
screen or process application for licence to manufacture or import or distribute tobacco or tobacco product;
(d)
make regulations for the approval of the Minister;
(e)
coordinate, support or fund public sensitization campaigns on key provisions of the Act;
(f)
coordinate multi-stakeholder national youth smoking prevention programmes involving Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs), faith based organizations, civil society organizations and other stakeholders;
(g)
develop strategies for the counseling and rehabititation of smokers, particularly those eager to quit smoking;
(h)
work with the Federal Ministry of Agriculture and other relevant agencies on alternative cropping for tobacco farmers; and
(i)
perform such other functions as may, from time to time, be assigned to it by the Minister.