November 2023
Pouches Do little to Curb Cravings: Study
Nicotine pouches do little to curb smokers’ nicotine cravings, according to a study by scientists at the Center for Tobacco Research at The Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center—Arthur G. James Cancer Hospital and Richard J. Solove Research Institute. The researchers evaluated whether nicotine pouches with different levels of nicotine concentration were more or less appealing to...
Customs Seizes Illicit Tobacco Worth GH¢7.95m In Crackdown On Smuggling
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...
Smoking is the leading cause of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
A new brief reveals that smoking remains one of the leading causes of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), a common lung disease that causes breathing problem and claiming the lives of over 3 million people every year. There is an estimated 392 million people living with COPD and three quarters of them live in low- and middle-income countries. Tobacco smoking accounts...
Ghana’s Tobacco Control Strategy
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...
Tobacco Industry’s Interference in Government Policy Increases Globally
Tobacco industry interference in governments’ tobacco control policies has increased in 43 out of 90 countries analysed over the past two years. This is according to the Global Tobacco Industry Interference Index 2023 released on Tuesday by tobacco watchdog STOP, and the Global Center for Good Governance in Tobacco Control (GGTC). “No country has been spared from the...
Vietnam steps up tobacco control
The Ministry of Information and Communications (MIC) and the Tobacco Harm Prevention and Control Fund under the Ministry of Health co-organised a conference in Hanoi on November 23 to promote the communications work in the fight against tobacco. The Ministry of Information and Communications (MIC) and the Tobacco Harm Prevention and Control Fund under the Ministry...
New WHO campaign highlights tobacco industry tactics to influence public health policies
The World Health Organization (WHO), today, officially launches the "Stop the lies" campaign as a vital initiative to protect young people from the tobacco industry and their deadly products, by calling for an end to tobacco industry interference in health policy. This campaign is supported by new evidence from “The Global Tobacco Industry Interference Index 2023”, published...
Group seeks proper enforcement of tobacco control laws
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...
