ATCA 2022 Media Award: The Winners
In March 2022, the ATCA Tobacco Control Media Award was launched in a virtual come together that brought together media professionals and other tobacco control stakeholders to exchange ideas and experiences on the vital role that journalists play in tobacco control. The award, a yearly initiative organized to motivate journalists to generate compelling tobacco control media...
How Low Budgetary Allocation for Tobacco Control will Worsen Public Health Issues
The 2023 Appropriation Act has witnessed an innovative budgetary allocation for tobacco control, with an allocation of 4.7 million Naira, out of the overall 21.83 trillion Naira budget, to enforce tobacco control in Nigeria. The allocation is the first after two years since the Nigeria Tobacco Control Act 2015 was gazetted, which made provision for...
Dutch parliament supports making e-cigarettes look boring, uniform
Dutch parliamentarians want e-cigarettes and vapes to have a boring and uniform appearance. According to the D66, which will submit this proposal in parliament on Wednesday, this will make vaping less attractive to teenagers. A majority in parliament supports the plan, RTL Nieuws reports. “Young people now think it’s cool to have such an accessory with glitter...
MP asks Government to look again at ‘polluter pays’ levy on tobacco firms
Winchester and Chandler's Ford MP, Steve Brine, has called on the Government to create a smoke-free fund paid for by the tobacco industry, to boost new public health budgets. The Chair of the Health and Social Care Committee spoke during Parliamentary questions to the Health Department where he welcomed the appointment of Professor Deanfield as the...
Govt urged to amend tobacco control law, ban e-cigarettes
Local non-governmental organisation the Development Organisation of the Rural Poor on Wednesday urged the government to pass the draft amendment of tobacco control act and ban all types of electronic cigarettes at the earliest to make the country tobacco-free by 2040. "Tobacco companies are spreading rumours against the amendment of tobacco control act. We request...
Putting vapes in plain packaging ‘reduces their appeal to children’
Research has shown that the proportion of children vaping is on the rise, with many being influenced by social media sites including TikTok. Putting vapes in plain packaging reduces their appeal to children and could even stop them taking up vaping in the first place, a major new study has found. Researchers discovered that removing bright colours,...
