South Africa: #TakeBackPublicHealth: No Place For Big Tobacco’s Dirty Schemes
September 19, 2018: Big Tobacco is testing out a new strategy to hijack public health initiatives. Attempting to skew popular perceptions, industry body Tobacco Institute of South Africa (Tisa) is paying social media ...
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Tobacco ‘epidemic’ in Africa fuelled by fewer filters
14 Sep 2018: Many African countries with poor tobacco controls are an attractive destination for cigarette companies, according to a study on trends in the supply and demand of cigarettes by the University of Cape Town’s Economics of Tobacco Control Project (ETCP).
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The World Must Unite Against Big Tobacco’s 21st Century Colonialism
September 06, 2018: Since the first American explorers brought tobacco back to Europe at the turn of the 16th century, smoking has always been a first-world problem. The product may have been grown by slaves in the Americas, or farmers in Africa and Asia, but it was always marketed to a wealthy Euro-American audience.
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Nigeria: ERA/FoEN seeks enforcement of Tobacco Control Act
September 4, 2018: A civil society organisation, Environmental Rights Action/ Friends of the Earth Nigeria, has called on the federal government to commence immediate enforcement of the National Tobacco Control (NTC) Act signed into law in 2015. Its Deputy Executive Director, Akinbode Oluwafemi, spoke at a media presentation of public awareness materials against tobacco at the weekend in Abuja.
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