January 2023
Spain tobacco firms to pay to clean up cigarette butts
Tobacco companies will now be charged to clean up cigarette butts off the streets and beaches of Spain, according to new environmental regulations. Millions of butts are thrown away each year - releasing toxic plastic waste which can take decades to break down. Figures from 2020 show around a fifth of adult Spaniards smoke everyday. The rules...
December 2022
ATCA is honoured with the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids (CTFK) Afro Leadership Award in Tobacco Control 2022.
PRESS RELEASE 16 December 2022 The African Tobacco Control Alliance (ATCA) has received the CTFK Afro Leadership Award in Tobacco Control 2022. This was in a ceremony that brought together tobacco control actors from across Africa to celebrate the tobacco control successes in the continent. The event took place on Tuesday 13 December 2022 in Nairobi...
Non-Communicable Diseases Unit Updates Public On Enforcement Of Tobacco Control Act 2016
The Non-communicable Disease (NCD) unit under the Directorate of Health Promotion and Education, Ministry of Health Friday updated the public on the ongoing enforcement of the Tobacco Control Act 2016 during a press briefing held at the Central Medical Store Complex, Kotu. Giving updates regarding the enforcement of the tobacco control Act 2016, Omar Badjie,...
Kenya anti-tobacco crusaders fault President Ruto’s South Korea deal
A group of advocates of tobacco use control have denounced the deal Kenya’s President William Ruto made with South Korea to enhance tobacco trade, saying it will put more Kenyans at risk of diseases linked to the farming and use of the product. The Kenya Tobacco Control Alliance (Ketca), an umbrella body of civil society organisations...
How Sub-Saharan Africa can significantly reduce its cigarette consumption
Sub-Saharan Africa is poised to suffer a tobacco pandemic given the overall prevalence of cigarette consumption. This is a result of the tobacco industry's aggressive marketing campaigns, rapid economic and population expansion, or both. The demand for tobacco goods can be decreased by raising the excise duty on these items since higher taxes make tobacco products more expensive...
More South Africans are smoking – higher taxes and stronger law enforcement are needed
Tobacco use imposes a significant health and economic burden on countries. Research estimates that the cost of smoking in South Africa amounted to 0.97% of the country’s GDP in 2016. These costs are likely to have increased as a result of the observed rise in smoking prevalence over the past five years. In 2021, South Africa conducted its first...
New smoking laws for South Africa are coming – you’ll soon be fined or jailed for smoking in these areas
The Tobacco Products and Electronic Delivery Systems Control Bill has been tabled before parliament, starting the process of getting proposed changes for smokers and the tobacco industry into law. An explanatory note on the proposed laws was gazetted in October, with the Department of Health giving notice that the bill would be tabled in the...
Number of smokers drops as vaping rises, data shows
The number of people smoking in the UK dropped to its lowest level on record last year but more people were using e-cigarettes, new figures have revealed. Data from the Office for National Statistics found around 13.3% of people aged 18 or over smoked cigarettes in 2021, down from 14.0% in 2020. But 7.7% of those...
