In the new Tobacco Lobby Index 2021, Switzerland comes in an inglorious 79th place (out of 80) and is just ahead of the Dominican Republic. Once again it becomes clear: the tobacco industry is massively interfering in Swiss politics in order to be able to freely market and sell its deadly and harmful products.
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A l’occasion du lancement de l’indice d’ingérence de l’industrie du tabac en Afrique 2021, ce mercredi 27 octobre, en marge de la 1ère conférence africaine sur la lutte antitabac et le développement en Afrique, Léonce Sessou, Secrétaire Exécutif de l’Alliance pour le Contrôle du Tabac en Afrique (ACTA) a fait une déclaration pour appeler les gouvernements africains à protéger leurs efforts de lutte antitabac contre l’ingérence de l’industrie du tabac. (Lire déclaration)
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The adage hard work pays has been fulfilled with the pearl of Africa – Uganda, after being announced as the best country on the African continent, which is undoubtedly pushing the tobacco industry against the wall.
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An advocacy group, Corporate Accountability and Public Participation Africa (CAPPA), has decried the interference of the tobacco industry in Nigeria with government policies, including policies meant to regulate the industry.
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Donation by a leading tobacco manufacturer to the Covid-19 Emergency Response Fund has cost Kenya’s ranking in the industry interference listing.
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The Alliance for Tobacco Control in Africa (ACTA) this morning virtually launched the first edition of the African Tobacco Industry Interference Index, produced in collaboration with the Africa Center for Tobacco Industry Monitoring and Policy Research (ATIM), with the support of the STOP partnership, through the Global Center for Good Governance in Tobacco Control (GGTC).
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The Corporate Accountability and Public Participation Africa (CAPPA) has stated that tobacco industry interference remains a major challenge to effective tobacco control in Nigeria and Africa. CAPPA alerted that big tobacco companies were constantly interfering with governments’ health policies thereby endangering regulatory efforts in clear contravention of the National Tobacco Control Act, 2015, and the National Tobacco Control Regulations, 2019.
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Tobacco control advocates, under the auspices of the Corporate Accountability and Public Participation Africa (CAPPA), have urged the Federal Government to urgently commence full implementation of the National Tobacco Control Act (NTCA) 2015 and National Tobacco Control Regulations (NTCR) 2019 Act to stop the industry’s undue interference in government’s policies.
guardian.ng
The Corporate Accountability and Public Participation Africa (CAPPA) has advised the Nigerian government to de-normalize so-called socially responsible activities of the tobacco industry and prohibit unnecessary interactions between public officials and the industry to avoid a conflict of interest.
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The Corporate Accountability and Public Participation Africa, CAPPA, has said the tobacco industry was interfering with governments’ health policies thereby endangering regulatory efforts in clear contravention of the National Tobacco Control Act, 2015, and the National Tobacco Control Regulations, 2019.
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"The tobacco industry, in at least five countries, engaged in high levels of unnecessary interactions with governments. These took the form of trade and partnerships, enforcement of laws, social activities and economic development agenda."
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Africa Against Tobacco (ACONTA) launched the report on the index of tobacco industry interference in Burkina Faso. It was Monday, October 25, 2021 in Ouagadougou, in the presence of several partner institutions in the fight against this public health phenomenon, in particular the Ministry of Industry, Trade and Crafts; the Minister of Health; the World Health Organization (WHO) in Burkina Faso and the Network of Journalists for Tobacco Control in Burkina Faso, all addressees of the said memorandum.
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This week the SUT (Uruguayan Tobacco Society) will present a legal appeal before the Administrative Litigation Tribunal (TCA) to challenge decree 87/021 that in March of this allowed the importation and commercialization of electronic devices for the administration of nicotine through technology that warms dry tobacco.
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Today at 11 am, the Global Tobacco Industry Interference Index for 2021 was presented via Zoom. This index measures the level of interference of the tobacco industries in the public policies of each country.
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Failure to do so runs the risk of inviting Big Tobacco to sink. The recently-released Tobacco Industry Interference Index Report for 2021 has indicated that the South African government is not doing enough to prevent its tobacco control policies from being influenced by the industry. Troublingly, this year’s report found that South Africa dropped six points from last year and now finds itself one of the ten nations most vulnerable to industry interference in the world, spelling dire news for anti-tobacco lobbyists, healthcare groups and the more than 60 million people who call South Africa home.
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This week the SUT (Uruguayan Tobacco Society) will present a legal appeal before the Administrative Litigation Tribunal (TCA) to challenge decree 87/021 that in March of this allowed the importation and commercialization of electronic devices for the administration of nicotine through technology that warms dry tobacco.
www.m24.com.uy
The Alliance Against Non-Communicable Diseases had presented an appeal to the Presidency of the Republic, which according to the sociologist and spokesman for the Alliance, Diego Rodríguez, had no response.
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The government has been urged to implement a number of recommendations made in the Kenya 2021 Tobacco Industry Interference Index Report.
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The Vision for Alternative Development (VALD), a non-governmental organization has launched a 2020 Tobacco Industry Interferences Index Report- Ghana with a call on government to announce in its 2021 budget tax increases on tobacco, alcoholic beverages and other unhealthy products.
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Civil society engaged in the fight against tobacco in Côte d'Ivoire produced, recently, at the headquarters of the NGO Unesco University Committee / Club for the fight against drugs and other pandemics (Clucod) in Abobo, a document containing the tobacco industry interference index.
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