Experts Task Africa On Tobacco Harm Reduction
Experts have tasked African countries to accord priority to tobacco harm reduction by ensuring that regulation of tobacco use on the continent is guided by science not emotions. Currently, Africa has a smoking prevalence of 8.4 percent with projection that the continent may likely have a higher percentage of the total number of global smokers...
Cutting edge tool to help smokers quit – launched by a tobacco company – Mirror Online
Philip Morris International has been working alongside a team of experts for the last 15 years to develop the tool that will help smokers give up cigarettes for good A tobacco giant has spent billions of pounds on a cutting-edge tool to help smokers to ditch cigarettes. After 15 years and £8.32billion spent on research, a smokeless...
Nigeria: NTCA Trains Advocates on Tobacco Control Budget Advocacy
In the face of dwindling budgetary allocation to tobacco control in the country, stakeholders on August 21, 2023, participated in a capacity building workshop on tobacco control budget advocacy hosted by the Nigeria Tobacco Control Alliance. The advocates have a common objective to drive up allocation to tobacco control in the national budget. Chairman of...
Pakinstan: Health ministry puts tobacco manufacturers on notice
The Ministry of National Health Services (NHS) has issued notices to at least 10 tobacco manufacturers, including a multinational company, over violation of tobacco advertisement guidelines. Health Director General Dr Baseer Khan Achakzai told Dawn that these companies were involved in marketing tobacco products through social media and other means. “Moreover, they had hired children who...
China: 300 million smokers and counting
Twenty years after adopting the World Health Organisation (WHO) Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC), China is still addicted to cigarettes. The world’s largest producer and consumer of tobacco, it has an estimated 300 million smokers, nearly a third of the world’s total. Despite years of anti-smoking campaigns – Chinese President Xi Jinping reportedly gave up...
