As a regional organisation coordinating tobacco control civil society initiatives in the continent, ATCA works to foster synergy with other tobacco control stakeholders, and ensure mobilisation, capacity building and coordination for effective tobacco control in Africa. The alliance has acquired skills, knowledge and expertise in various tobacco control domains and support parties, leading to major tobacco...
The Corporate Accountability and Public Participation Africa (CAPPA) on Wednesday, March 16, 2022, called on the Health Ministry, and all relevant law enforcement agencies in the country to intensify enforcement of graphic health warnings policy on tobacco products. The group said recent monitoring exercises that it carried out with other groups such as the Nigeria...
Southeast Asia Tobacco Control Alliance has said that raising taxes on tobacco products will reduce their use and help save lives. In Cambodia this means the move could help over two million smokers quit the habit and prevent 15,000 deaths a year. It said that the current tax rate is only 25-31% of the retail...
Imperial Tobacco has been accused of allowing a trade in cheap cigarettes in Laos through a special deal with the country's government. A tax agreement between Imperial and state-owned Laos Tobacco means cigarettes can cost as little as 25 pence per packet, researchers said. The University of Bath's Tobacco Control Research Group claimed it is encouraging...
There’s a seriously unhealthy synergy between our Treasury’s tax policy architects and our health department when it comes to non-combustible nicotine products. Our health department slavishly follows the World Health Organisation’s (WHO) hotly contested shooting down of everything nicotine, while Treasury gladly widens its tax net to siphon billions of extra rands from the...
Japan’s state-backed tobacco company announced on Thursday that it would suspend planned investments in Russia, but failed to promise to shut down factories despite criticism that continuing operations would pump cash into a government that has come under heavy sanctions for its invasion of Ukraine. Japan Tobacco International (JTI), which is behind brands like Winston...
France recently delivered encouraging news for the fight against the tobacco habit that is responsible for some 700,000 deaths each year in Europe. According to figures released by the Droits des Non-Fumeurs association, cigarette sales in France fell by 6.5% year-on-year in 2021, in line with a trend that has seen total sales plummet by 25% over...
The South African government will propose a new tax on vaping products to take effect in 2023, according to Vaping360. The move follows the government’s announcement last year that it intended to tax e-liquids. South African Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana outlined the new tax proposal as part of a package of new and increased excise taxes on tobacco, alcohol and high-sugar...
An EU method for testing how much tar, nicotine and other chemicals are emitted by cigarettes has never been formally published in the European rule book and so it is up to local courts what to do with it, the European Court of Justice has decided. The case stems from a complaint made by...
ON January 27, 2022, the Health Ministry announced plans to ban tobacco and other smoking products for those born after 2005. Further clarification revealed that the proposed ban would also cover vape and vaping products. In a recent survey by the Retail and Trade Brand Advocacy Malaysia Chapter (RTBA Malaysia), the vast majority of respondents felt...
