The Center for the Study of the Economies of Africa (CSEA) yesterday said Nigeria spent N526.4 billion to treat tobacco-related ailments in 2019. This, according to the group, was parts of the outcome of its findings. CSEA Director of Education and Governance research/Senior Research Fellow Dr Adedeji Adeniran made this known at a workshop held...
"We need to take action against the tobacco industry because for decades they have marketed deadly products to children and older people around the world..." Tobacco multinationals in Nigeria use intermediaries to ”clean their image and grow their businesses”, thereby undermining the implementation of the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control, a new report has...
A policy document on COVID-19 and tobacco use by the School of Public Health, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology has called for the ban of Shisha use in Ghana to prevent the spread of COVID-19. It further called for the ban of the sale and importation of tobacco products including cigarettes during the...
How tobacco companies use intermediaries to foster their corporate social responsibility initiatives and promote their image in Nigeria A report exposing the use of allies by tobacco multinationals for their benefit was launched on Friday 29 January 2021 in Lagos, Nigeria. Prepared by Corporate Accountability and Public Participation Africa (CAPPA), with support from the African Tobacco...
Nigeria’s 2021 national budget has not disappointed pessimists. Like previous years public health was relegated to the back seat in terms of priority and funding. The breakdown of the approved budget shows that the health sector received only N547 billion (five hundred and forty-seven billion naira), representing about seven per cent of the budget’s total...
Egypt is set to increase the prices of local and imported cigarettes by EGP 0.25/pack in July 2021, local media sources have reported. The proceeds of the increase will be directed to the Ministry of Finance, and will contribute to funding for the Universal Healthcare Insurance programme. The programme was launched in July 2018, where...
Why do young people smoke? This is a question that has baffled many tobacco control researchers, hoping to discourage adolescents and young people from taking up a harmful that can have negative consequences on their health later in life. Studies in Côte d’Ivoire have shown that factors such as curiosity and snobbery as well as other...
Summary The coordinator of the affected farmers in Maracha District, Mr Christopher Adia, on Tuesday said: “In 2018, we signed a contract with Continental Tobacco Company Uganda Ltd to grow tobacco. We sold the tobacco that year and the same thing happened in 2019. But up to now our money has not been paid.” More...
As the four students of Whitesands College, Lekki, posed for the camera after emerging winners of the 2018 Conrad Challenge, the name of an entity screamed from a roll-up banner behind them: Foundation for a Smoke-Free World. The Junior Secondary School Two (JSS2) students had won the Smoke-Free World category of the Conrad Foundation Spirit...
The African Tobacco Control Alliance (ATCA) says the rising number of tobacco users in Bostwana is frightening. In a statement on Tuesday, the group said the south African country urgently needs a strong tobacco control law to protect its citizens from the devastating effects of tobacco. According to statistics from the Global Adult Tobacco Survey (GATS)...
