Timor-Leste supports tobacco users to quit by launching its first tobacco cessation centre and quit line
Small island countries often have high rates of tobacco use. Among the 20 countries in the world with the high tobacco use rates, five of them are small island developing countries: Kiribati (52%), Nauru (52%), Tuvalu (49%), Solomon Islands (38%) and Timor-Leste (38%). Deeply concerned about the tobacco epidemic as one of their biggest...
Efforts to reduce tobacco harm in Africa up in smoke
Lack of support, inadequate policies and misinformation have been identified as some of the obstacles standing in the way of the reduction of tobacco harm in Africa as discussed during the Global Forum on Nicotine (GFN) held in Liverpool, England last week. Another disturbing finding about tobacco harm states that the continent has about 77...
Ferrari Once Again Pulls Mission Winnow’s Totally-Not-Tobacco Logos Off its F1 Cars
Cigarette ads are banned in Formula One. Yet Marlboro's owner is still trying—and constantly failing—to hold real estate on Ferrari's car. Cigarette advertisements have been banned from Formula 1 for over a decade. Since 2006, no car can bear advertisements for cigarettes, tobacco, or tobacco products. And still, in 2021, a division of one of...
India: Cancer survivors urge PM Modi to ban tobacco sale
BENGALURU: With the Covid third wave predicted to hit by October, cancer survivors from Bengaluru have demanded that the central and state governments bring amendment to the Cigarette and Other Tobacco Products Act (COTPA), impose ban on tobacco sales and strictly enforce the ban on smoking and spitting in public places. In a letter to Prime...
Big Tobacco exploit dairy owners in cynical attempt to derail smokefree policy
Late yesterday afternoon, Hāpai Te Hauora sent a tweet in response to NZ Herald’s article: Revealed: Big Tobacco behind dairy owners postcard protest at Parliament. The response from Hāpai says "Disappointed - yet not surprised, that Big Tobacco are using dairy owners to lead their agenda to continue to kill New Zealanders. Hāpai Te Hauora Chief...
Kenya: Proposal To Tax Nicotine Products A Welcome Move
In Summary •Tax and price policies are known to be the most effective measures for deterring initiation of and continuous use of harmful products such as tobacco and nicotine products- also known as sin tax. •As we adopt fiscal measures on the emerging nicotine products, it is important to maintain and actually improve the fiscal measures...
