Says Regulations are “the first of its kind in Africa and the second in the world after India” The African Tobacco Control Alliance (ATCA) has congratulated Nigeria for its “historic” new measures prohibiting the promotion and glamorisation of tobacco and tobacco products in its film and music industry. ATCA’s Executive Secretary Leonce Dieudonne SESSOU, in a...
The African Tobacco Control Alliance (ATCA) has congratulated Nigeria for its “historic” new measures prohibiting the promotion and glamorisation of tobacco and tobacco products in its film and music industry. ATCA’s Executive Secretary Leonce Dieudonne SESSOU, in a statement dated Monday, May 27, but issued on Tuesday, said that the regulation, announced by the Nigerian...
January 9, 2024 Panama City, Panama The World Health Organisation-Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (WHO-FCTC) Secretariat has hailed the African Tobacco Control Alliance (ATCA) for it's 15 years of consistent support to the AFRO region parties and advocating for the adoption and implementation of tobacco control legislations. Head of the FCTC Secretariat Adriana Blanco expressed her gratitude...
A new report on the state of the tobacco industry interference in Nigeria has revealed a marked increase in the industry’s meddling in public health policies, in particular, tobacco control measures. Sunday Ehigiator reports Nigeria ratified the World Health Organization Framework Convention on Tobacco Control’s (WHO FCTC) Article 5.3 guidelines on 20 October 2005, and...
Nigeria is Africa’s second highest contributor to the US$26bn global costs of environmental pollution caused by plastics in cigarette butts and packaging every year. This is according to data analysed by the African Tobacco Control Alliance. The ATCA’s conclusion, as contained in its statement dated December 6, followed its analysis of research findings by the Global...
The other African countries are South Africa, Sudan, Mozambique, Kenya and Ethiopia. Nigeria and five other African countries have been listed as major contributors to environmental pollution caused by plastics in cigarette butts and packaging globally. This is contained in a press statement released by the African Tobacco Control Alliance, stating that the economic cost of...
The costs of environmental pollution caused by plastics in cigarette butts and packaging amount to an estimated US$26 billion every year or US$186billion every 10 years-adjusted for inflation-in waste management and marine ecosystem damage worldwide. Data analysis from the Global Centre for Good Governance in Tobacco Control published online in the journal of Tobacco Control...
In a significant victory against the illicit trade of tobacco products, the Customs Division of the Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA) has successfully confiscated a substantial quantity of unlawfully smuggled tobacco. The street value of the confiscated products is estimated at GH¢7,951,238.39. The contraband, which entered Ghana through unapproved border routes, was intercepted as part of the...
Ghana’s government has developed a five-year National Tobacco Control Strategy (NTCS) with a goal of decreasing the consumption rate of tobacco in the country, reports The Ghanaian Times. The end goal of the NTCS is to eradicate all tobacco usage. The Ministry of Health, the Food and Drugs Authority (FDA), the World Health Organization and the...
The Nigeria Tobacco Control Alliance has called on the Standards Organisations of Nigeria, the Federal Ministry of Health, the Nigeria Police Force, and Federal Competition and Consumer Protection, among others, to immediately commence the enforcement of the graphic health warnings policy on tobacco products. The group said the Federal Ministry of Health had approved a...
