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30JanJanuary 30, 2025

USA: Quit & Thrive Challenge: Community-Derived Solutions to Reduce Menthol Cigarette Smoking

ODP and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) are sponsoring the Quit & Thrive Challenge: Community-Derived Solutions to Reduce Menthol Cigarette Smoking to enhance the evidence base of interventions to help individuals from populations experiencing health disparities quit smoking, with a specific emphasis on menthol cigarettes. This Challenge encourages submissions from local and...

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08DecDecember 8, 2023

COVID-19 slowed global progress in tobacco control – report

LONDON, Nov 22 (Reuters) - Global progress in policies to reduce tobacco use slowed for the first time in 12 years following the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to analysis published on Wednesday by the Global Tobacco Control Progress Hub, which warned millions of people worldwide likely continued to smoke as a result. The...

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24NovNovember 24, 2023

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...

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24NovNovember 24, 2023

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...

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24NovNovember 24, 2023

COVID-19 slowed global progress in tobacco control – report

Global progress in policies to reduce tobacco use slowed for the first time in 12 years following the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to analysis published on Wednesday by the Global Tobacco Control Progress Hub, which warned millions of people worldwide likely continued to smoke as a result. The hub, a collaboration between the...

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10NovNovember 10, 2023

King’s Speech lays out plans for a smokefree future

King Charles III today confirmed that the UK Government will introduce legislation to raise the age of sale for tobacco, ensuring no one currently aged 14 or under can ever be legally sold cigarettes or other tobacco products. The announcement, made in the King’s Speech during the state opening of Parliament, follows on from last...

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10NovNovember 10, 2023

Kenya Urged to Hike Excise Duties

Kenya should increase its cigarette excise duties in line with World Health Organization guidelines, according to coalition of health experts, tobacco control advocates and national development policy specialists, reports People Daily Kenya. The call comes in response to the government’s 2023-2024 financial budget, which for the first time in a decade maintains cigarette tax levels at...

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10NovNovember 10, 2023

Big divide over South Africa’s new smoking laws

The Portfolio Committee on Health has held more public hearings on the Tobacco Products and Electronic Delivery Systems Control Bill in Mpumalanga, with opinions on the bill again coming in mixed. The Bill, which has been met with vehement opposition from those within the tobacco industry, broadly aims to introduce the following: Indoor public places...

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08NovNovember 8, 2023

National Taxpayers Association calls for heavy taxation on e-cigarette

Concerns are raised over the surge in the use of electronic cigarettes popularly known as e-cigarettes among Generation Z. An e-cigarette is a device that allows you to inhale nicotine in a vapour form rather than smoke. According to study findings by the Brain and Mind Institute based at the Aga Khan University Nairobi, the prevalence...

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13OctOctober 13, 2023

FDA issues ban on RJ Reynolds menthol-flavoured vapes in US

The US federal drug regulator has told British American Tobacco’s US subsidiary to halt sales of its menthol-flavoured Vuse Alto vape, the most popular e-cigarette in the US, following a jump in popularity of the product among underage users. The Food and Drug Administration said on Thursday that it had issued marketing denial orders...

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