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...
Malawi should sustain its political will and not delay passing a WHO FCTC-compliant law
Statement of Leonce Dieudonne SESSOU, Executive Secretary of the African Tobacco Control Alliance (ATCA) on Malawi’s ratification of the WHO FCTC For immediate release Lomé, 04 September 2023 - The African Tobacco Control Alliance (ATCA) congratulates Malawi for becoming the newest Party to the World Health Organization Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (WHO FCTC). We...
Annual awards to expose ‘dirty tricks’ of tobacco industry call out Meta
A Subiaco-based national organisation fighting to reduce smoking and vaping and the Australian Medical Association have presented Meta with an ‘Exploding Vape’ award. AMA and the Australian Council on Smoking & Health held its annual Dirty Ashtray Awards ceremony on Tuesday, which was attended by Federal Health Minister Mark Butler. It aims to put a...
Kenya: Impose higher taxes on alcohol and tobacco to prevent diseases
The world is finally beginning to pay attention to what we have known for years: The most pressing and unaddressed health issues in much of Africa aren’t infectious diseases like malaria or HIV, but diseases like diabetes, cancer and hypertension known as noncommunicable diseases (NCDs). And these killers are poised to have a devastating...
Nigeria: CSOs disappointed over allocation of N4.7m to tobacco control in 2023 budget
Civil Society Organizations under the auspices of the Nigeria Tobacco Control Alliance, NTCA has expressed disappointment over the allocation of N4.7 million to tobacco control in 2023 budget amid the spread of tobacco-related diseases. The Alliance was reacting to the poor enforcement of the Act on controlling tobacco products consumption by Nigerians. They said: “While tobacco...
New tobacco laws ignite smoking, e-cigarette fight in SA
A multinational tobacco company in South Africa has called for the Tobacco Bill to differentiate between cigarette and e-cigarette smoking. Picture: lil artsy/Pexels South Africa’s new tobacco laws need to differentiate between cigarettes and non-combusted alternatives and help people make informed choices instead of clamping down on smoking. Regulations set out in the Tobacco Bill should...
