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Can tobacco growing pave way for livelihood crops?

Some authors stress that tobacco firms should be socially responsible by encouraging farmers to save some portion of land to grow staple crops. Scope of tobacco farming in Uganda Article 17 of the WHOFCTC compels parties to promote viable alternative livelihoods for tobacco farmers. It can clearly be noted that fewer governments have done so. Hundreds...

Academia must stop fake science in promoting tobacco products

Tobacco use remains the single largest preventable cause of disease, disability and death in the world. In Summary We remain suspicious of ‘scientific’ reports being used to market emerging and novel products being shipped into the country by the big tobacco companies. The goal is to delay or stop the Ministry of Health’s...

Policy changes needed for tobacco control

Dr Raouf Alebshehy is a public health consultant with a background in medicine and healthcare reform. He works as monitoring coordinator in Tobacco Tactics, part of the Tobacco Control Research Group at the University of Bath, which is research partner in the global tobacco industry watchdog STOP. The number of smokers in the UK has been falling since 2011,...

Nollywood: NGO, NFVCB launch campaign against smoking in children’s movies

A Non-Governmental Organisation (NGO), Smoke-Free Nollywood, and the National Film and Video Censors Board(NFVCB) have launched a digital media campaign to discourage smoking scenes in-home movies watched by children. The Creative Director, Smoke Free Nollywood, Ms. Esther Aghotor, announced this said in a statement on Tuesday, in Abuja. According to her, a visual Public Service Announcement (PSA)...

Study: US Tobacco Tax Increases Could Help Achieve Smokefree Goal by 2030

A recent study published on BMJ’s Tobacco Control, suggests that state cigarette excise tax increases could help achieve the country’s goal of having a 5% cigarette smoking rate. The Healthy People 2030 goal is to reduce US current adult cigarette smoking prevalence to 5% by 2030. In order to determine whether this goal is achievable...

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