Tobacco Industry News

Experts Task Africa On Tobacco Harm Reduction

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...

Cutting edge tool to help smokers quit – launched by a tobacco company – Mirror Online

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...

The new tobacco bill

The new tobacco bill will hand complete control of South Africa’s cigarette market to the criminal tobacco barons who are already stealing more than R20 billion a year in vital tax revenue. This is the warning from Tax Justice SA (TJSA). “If the kingpins of the illicit cigarette trade were told to draft a plan...

Zimbabwe reports record tobacco sales, mostly to China, yet many farmers deep in debt

Zimbabwe has reported record tobacco sales as the southern African nation reestablishes itself as one of the leading growers in the world HARARE, Zimbabwe -- Zimbabwe has reported record tobacco sales as the southern African nation reestablishes itself as one of the leading growers in the world, and yet the small-scale Black farmers now selling their...

Philip Morris expands Iqos portfolio in South Africa

Tobacco company Philip Morris International has launched a new version of its Iqos heat-not-burn cigarette alternative in South Africa. The Iqos Originals One is an upgraded and renamed version of the Iqos 3 Multi. Iqos Originals One comes in four new colours and is fully compatible with existing Heets tobacco sticks. The product is now...

New smoking tax hitting South Africa next month

From 1 June 2023, nicotine-substitute solutions, including vaping products, will be included in the tax net with a flat excise duty rate of R2.90/ml. Excise duty on vaping tobacco products has been in the pipeline for a while – the tax was first announced in finance minister Enoch Godongwana’s 2022 budget speech. The South African Revenue...

Vaping: Free e-cigarettes to be handed out in anti-smoking drive

One million smokers will be given a free vaping starter kit to encourage them to give up tobacco products. Pregnant women will also be offered up to £400 to stop smoking as part of a package of measures in England unveiled by the government on Tuesday. A consultation will be launched on compelling cigarette manufacturers to put...

Tobacco use kills more than 6,700 Ghanaians each year

More than 800,000 Ghanaians continue to smoke annually, while tobacco use kills more than 6,700 people each year in the country. Sixty-six percent of these deaths occur before the age of 70. Mr. Peter Bismark Kwofie, Executive Director, Institute for Liberty, and Policy Innovation (ILAPI), a policy think tank located in Tema, has stated, adding that...

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