Since its inception, e-cigarette use (or vaping) has been marketed as a “healthy” alternative to cigarettes, and even as a pathway to quitting tobacco use altogether. Unfortunately, no current scientific evidence supports either claim. When it comes to stopping tobacco, safe and proven alternatives exist, but none involve vaping. When it comes to quitting tobacco, a...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
