April 2022
The Dirt Behind Big Tobacco and the Environment
The next time you go for a walk, look at the ground. How many littered cigarette butts do you see? Chances are, more than a few. Cigarette butts are the most littered item on the planet—4.5 trillion are discarded every year. While cigarette waste may be the most visible form of environmental degradation the tobacco industry...
Tobacco Control Advocates Help End Industry PR Opportunities
Big Tobacco knows it has a reputation problem; it’s one of the reasons the industry is strategically pivoting its narrative. Certain companies are even denouncing some of their own products, claiming they wish to move away from cigarettes. They are trying to portray themselves as ambassadors of science, corporate responsibility and even COVID-19 economic...
Directors step down after Vectura tobacco takeover
The two most senior directors who were in charge of Vectura, the respiratory drugs firm, at the time of its £1 billion takeover by Philip Morris International have stepped down. Will Downie and Paul Fry quit their respective roles as chief executive and chief financial officer following the completion of the deal with the maker...
Suffocating planet! The environmental implications of the vaping industry
What many people already know is that tobacco product waste from cigarette butts is one of the most common forms of plastic waste suffocating the environment. Now, there is another detrimental threat facing our environment (much to the dismay of the Cape Town vaping community)– vape waste. Vape waste creates three huge environmental issues: Increase...
‘Harmful and addicting youth’: Vaping crackdown flagged in national report
Brightly coloured vaping products with flavours like bubble gum and fairy floss that claim to be nicotine-free could be banned in a national crackdown as new research finds e-cigarettes are “harmful and addicting youth”. But any move to restrict e-cigarettes may face fierce resistance from a group of pro-vaping Coalition backbench MPs, who fought against...
Recruitment Of A Graphic Designer
Contract Type: Consultancy (1 consultant) Duration: One month Closing Date: 21 April 2022 1- BACKGROUND ATCA is a non-profit, non-political and continent-wide tobacco control alliance of civil society organizations (CSOs) with a vision to promote health by building a tobacco-free Africa. Established in 2008, the alliance is a unique Pan African tobacco control civil society network...
We can achieve good health for all if we work to attain a clean and tobacco-free world.
Statement of Leonce SESSOU, Executive Secretary of ATCA on the occasion of World Health Day 2022 We can achieve good health for all if we work to attain a clean and tobacco-free world. FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Lomé, 07 April 2022 For World Health Day this year, the World Health Organization (WHO) asks if we can reimagine a...
We can achieve good health for all if we work to attain a clean and tobacco-free world
For World Health Day this year, the World Health Organization (WHO) asks if we can reimagine a world where clean air, water and food are available to all; a world where economies are focused on health and well-being; a world where cities are liveable and people have control over their health and the health...
