New Zealand: Cancer Society petition calls for significant reduction of tobacco retailers
Today the Cancer Society is launching a petition calling for a significant reduction in the number of shops able to sell tobacco. Cancer Society Chief Executive Lucy Elwood says New Zealand will not reach its Smokefree 2025 goal without legislation to greatly limit the availability of the most harmful consumer product in history. “Tobacco kills about...
[OPINION] The tragic irony of defending the tobacco industry amid a pandemic
'If the history of the tobacco industry teaches us anything, it is that it cannot be an ally and it cannot be part of the solution, because its interests are diametrically opposed to public health' On March 21, a draft administrative order (AO) barring companies in conflict with public health, like tobacco and alcohol companies,...
Turkey renews free treatment scheme helping smokers quit
A new presidential decree signed by President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, Turkey’s most prominent anti-smoking activist, on Thursday, offers free medication for people trying to quit smoking. The decree is actually a new chapter in a program that was launched a decade ago and involves an array of medications to help people quit tobacco products,...
L’Afrique doit se mobiliser pour arrêter l’industrie du tabac qui exploite le COVID 19 pour développer ses affaires
Déclaration de Sessou Léonce, Secrétaire Exécutif, Alliance pour le Contrôle du Tabac en Afrique (ACTA) Lomé, 20 avril 2020 En cette période difficile où le monde lutte pour faire face à la pandémie de la maladie à corona virus (COVID-19), la communauté africaine de lutte antitabac a constaté avec consternation que les multinationales du tabac profitent...
Kenya: BAT rejects Health ministry’s guide on nicotine pouches
British American Tobacco (BAT) has lamented plans by Kenya’s Health ministry to classify its nicotine pouches as tobacco products regulated under the tobacco control law. The Health ministry in early February ruled the sale and distribution of BAT nicotine pouches, trading under Lyft brand, be done under the Tobacco Control Act —a move that would...
