Uruguay and New Zealand, both recognized for their leadership in tobacco control, are reinforcing a common message that achievements in tobacco control must be accompanied by sustained efforts to safeguard public health policymaking from tobacco industry interference.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Koror, Palau – October 18, 2021 – A civil society report finds there is room for improvement to prevent tobacco industry interference in health. The report is a result of Palau’s first participation in an international survey reviewing tobacco industry interference in measures protecting public health. It will be officially released on Wednesday, 20 October.
Abidjan - A report on the interference index of the tobacco industry in Côte d'Ivoire over the period 2008-2021, initiated and funded by the Global Center for Good Governance in Tobacco Control (GGTC) was presented Saturday, October 16, 2021 to the press in Abidjan.
Vision for Alternative Development (VALD) – a non-governmental organization with special focus on advocating against Tobacco use in Ghana, has officially launched the Ghana 2021 Tobacco Industry Interference Index report at a ceremony in Accra on Wednesday October 6, 2021.
Tobacco kills an estimated eight million people each year globally. And it’s known that the African continent is being targeted by tobacco companies. Are we doing enough to limit its harmful effects?
The Ghana report is expected to form part of the Global Tobacco Industry Interference Index aimed at documenting how public health policies are protected from the industry's subversive efforts, and how the government have pushed back against this influence.
A study has shown that the people have not been able to enjoy their right to health due to the continuous intervention of the tobacco industry. A study conducted by the Primary Health Care Resource Center on the tobacco industry's intervention in tobacco control has shown that the tax levied on tobacco in Nepal is weak in South Asia.
The government is not doing enough to stop the tobacco industry interfering with policy, the 2021 Tobacco Industry Interference Index Report for SA has claimed. The report states that several government departments have partnered unchecked with the tobacco industry.
Johannesburg, SA – The South African government is not doing enough to stop tobacco industry interference with policy. This is revealed by the 2021 Tobacco Industry Interference Index Report (index) for South Africa launched today. The index is an annual review of how governments protect public health policies from tobacco industry influence.
Despite international obligations, the German government is taking insufficient measures against the influence of the tobacco industry on political decisions. This is revealed by a new tobacco industry interference index presented by the Global Center for Good Governance in Tobacco Control (GGTC) and supported by the German Cancer Research Center, Unfairtobacco and eleven other organizations.
The minister and the deputy received "awards" - the reason was the shortfall in the budget of 10 billion tenge a year for lobbying for low excise taxes on heated tobacco, a well-known activist Jamilya Sadykova told the editorial office about this, NUR.KZ reports.
We are coming to you! Volunteers of the national coalition "For a smoke-free Kazakhstan" have come up with a new form of fighting smokers. Together with the police, they will photograph and film citizens smoking in public places.
A ranking of Latin America published in 2020, which measures the interference of the tobacco industry in public policies, shows Argentina with one of the worst indicators on the continent after Ecuador and Colombia. In the midst of the pandemic, and with smoking being one of the main risk factors in the fatality of covid-19, the tobacco companies deploy a strong commercial and marketing offensive. They do so within the margins of the current regulatory framework, taking full advantage of legal loopholes, and with the clear objective of securing a new generation of clients.
