African campaigners urge enhanced tobacco regulations amid health risks
The manufacturing, sale and consumption of tobacco products in Africa should be regulated in order to limit threats to public health and safety, campaigners said Tuesday. Leonce Sessou, executive secretary of African Tobacco Control Alliance, stressed that enactment of laws and public education is required to curb unhealthy use of tobacco products like cigarettes in...
Tobacco industry undermining Nigeria’s tobacco-control legislation – Group
"The tobacco industry enjoys consistent invitations from the Standards Organization of Nigeria (SON) to their meetings where supposed classified resolutions on standards are discussed, and agreements are reached." An advocacy group, Corporate Accountability and Public Participation Africa (CAPPA), has decried the interference of the tobacco industry in Nigeria with government policies, including policies meant to...
Uganda Emerges Best Tobacco Control Champion In Africa
The adage hard work pays has been fulfilled with the pearl of Africa - Uganda, after being announced as the best country on the African continent, which is undoubtedly pushing the tobacco industry against the wall. Uganda has been branded as the best tobacco control champion. This thrilling news was revealed during the virtual launch...
Group tasks FG on full implementation of NTCA 2015, NTCR 2019 laws
Laments tobacco industry’s interference in govt’s policies Tobacco control advocates, under the auspices of the Corporate Accountability and Public Participation Africa (CAPPA), have urged the Federal Government to urgently commence full implementation of the National Tobacco Control Act (NTCA) 2015 and National Tobacco Control Regulations (NTCR) 2019 Act to stop the industry’s undue interference in government’s...
L’ACTA appelle les gouvernements africains à protéger leurs efforts de lutte
A l’occasion du lancement de l’indice d’ingérence de l’industrie du tabac en Afrique 2021, ce mercredi 27 octobre, en marge de la 1ère conférence africaine sur la lutte antitabac et le développement en Afrique, Léonce Sessou, Secrétaire Exécutif de l’Alliance pour le Contrôle du Tabac en Afrique (ACTA) a fait une déclaration pour appeler...
Ingérence de l’industrie du tabac dans les politiques nationales/L’Afrique présente son indice d’ingérence
L’Alliance pour le Contrôle du Tabac en Afrique (ACTA) a lancé ce matin de façon virtuelle, la première édition de l’Indice d’Ingérence de l’Industrie du Tabac en Afrique, produit en collaboration avec Africa Centre for Tobacco Industry Monitoring and Policy Research (ATIM), avec le soutien du partenariat STOP, par le biais du Global Center...
How tobacco industry interferes in Nigerian, other African countries’ policies – Report
"The tobacco industry, in at least five countries, engaged in high levels of unnecessary interactions with governments. These took the form of trade and partnerships, enforcement of laws, social activities and economic development agenda." The tobacco industry stepped up corporate social responsibility activities during the COVID-19 pandemic, exploiting opportunities provided by the infectious disease to engage...
South Africa Must Not Allow Tobacco Industry to Commandeer Control Measures
Failure to do so runs the risk of inviting Big Tobacco to sink. The recently-released Tobacco Industry Interference Index Report for 2021 has indicated that the South African government is not doing enough to prevent its tobacco control policies from being influenced by the industry. Troublingly, this year’s report found that South Africa dropped six points from...
African governments must secure their tobacco control efforts from tobacco industry interference
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Lomé, 27 October 2021 For several decades, the tobacco industry has made frantic efforts to portray itself as a development partner. However, the maiden Africa Tobacco Industry Interference Index, launched this 27 October 2021, provides concrete evidence that across the continent, tobacco companies influence governments to undermine policies to protect the population from...
BAT joins tobacco’s health push with energy-drink investment
Joins a health push amid efforts to move away from tobacco and nicotine. British American Tobacco Plc invested in startup Tru Inc., a maker of energy and wellness drinks, as the owner of Lucky Strike cigarettes joins a health push amid efforts to move away from tobacco and nicotine. BAT’s corporate-venture unit Btomorrow Ventures led a...
