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Farmers’ shift from tobacco farming will save lives

In March this year, hundreds of farmers in Migori county, transitioned from risky tobacco farming to production of more sustainable crops, through the Tobacco-Free Farms Project. It was a joint initiative of the World Health Organisation (WHO), the World Food Programme (WFP), and the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO), in collaboration with the...

Tobacco product tax effective in reducing cigar use

Earlier this month the National Treasury Cabinet Secretary announced an intention to raise taxes on e-cigarette products during the annual budget statement presentation to Parliament. This announcement was received with excitement and condemnation in equal measure from tobacco control enthusiasts and the tobacco industry, respectively. In recent years, innovation in the tobacco industry has led...

MWANGI: Why killer cigarettes are still around

By late 1953, the tobacco industry faced a crisis of calamitous scope. Smoking had been positively linked to the dramatic rise of lung cancer. It worked to condemn, confuse and erode the very science that now threatened to destroy its prized, highly popular and exclusive product. The tobacco industry has been seeking since the 1950s to...

Tobacco sellers fight back

The tobacco industry has been seeking influence by funding research that supports its business and suppressing studies unfavourable to its positions. By late 1953, the industry faced a crisis. Smoking had been linked to the rise of lung cancer. Though health concerns had been raised for decades, there was a powerful expansion and consolidation of...

Tobacco use wanes in West, grows in Africa

Research is pointing to growing tobacco use in Africa while the reverse is true elsewhere. This is as worrying as it’s perplexing, considering the sustained anti-tobacco use campaigns carried out on the continent by lobbies. In a University of Chicago report, researchers who created a Tobacco Atlas after surveying 63 countries say there are more...

COP 27 Side Event: Tobacco and environmental impacts

Tobacco consumption as an environmental sustainability issue: environmental impact of tobacco products and proposed solutions that complement the solution for its negative health effects Date: 17 November 2022 Time: 12h00 GMT, 2pm in Egypt Location: Turkiye Pavilion The world’s attention is being focused on Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt where the 27th Conference of the Parties (COP27) to the United...

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