The interim government has recently enacted the Smoking and Tobacco Products Usage (Control) (Amendment) Ordinance, 2025 (the ‘Ordinance’) marking a significant step in strengthening Bangladesh’s tobacco control regime. The fresh ordinance redefines ‘tobacco’ and broadens the meaning of ‘tobacco products’ to include e-cigarettes, Electronic Nicotine Delivery System (ENDS), Heated Tobacco Product (HTP) and similar devices that have rapidly gained popularity, particularly among the younger users.
Executive Director of the Tanzania Tobacco Control Association (TTCF) Lutgard Kagaruki presenting a series of research studies on tobacco companies affecting health and causing non-communicable diseases during a meeting to assess how tobacco companies are interfering with health and regulatory policies tobacco prepared by TTCF and held at the Jakaya Kikwete Heart Institute (JKCI) Conference Hall yesterday in Dar es Salaam.
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Tegucigalpa, Honduras, 11/10/2021: Between 30% and 40% of Hondurans are smokers, of which 22% are men and 18% women, while the country spends about 1,238 million lempiras on patient care with diseases associated with tobacco use, according to data from Ihadfa.
Mexico City, November 9, 2021.- A report from the tobacco industry regulator STOP reveals that this industry embraced the COVID-19 pandemic as an opportunity to gain influence, meddle in life-saving health policies, and ensure preferential treatment.
The Global Tobacco Industry Interference Index 2021 Report released by the Global Center for Good Governance in Tobacco Control, GGTC, reinforces our call on the Nigerian government to de-normalise so-called corporate socially responsible activities of the tobacco industry.
The Global Center for Good Governance in Tobacco Control (GGTC) in its Global Tobacco Industry Interference Index 2021 Report has reinforced Corporate Accountability and Public Participation Africa (CAPPA)’s call on the Nigerian government to de-normalize so-called corporate socially responsible activities of the tobacco industry.
The Global interference index report was released on November 2 and contains findings from investigations, carried out all through the year by GGTC and its networks spread all over the world, on how the tobacco industry has conducted itself. This year’s index pays attention to the various ways tobacco companies have tried to influence policies and mandates aimed at regulating their products.
A new report has outlined the extent to which tobacco companies used the COVID-19 pandemic to engage with relief efforts, form relationships with government figures, and attempt to influence policy. The Global Tobacco Industry Interference Index 2021 is produced by the Global Centre for Good Governance in Tobacco Control, a partner of STOP, a tobacco industry watchdog. Notably, at least ten countries designated tobacco products as essential goods during the pandemic. Guatemala, Tanzania, and Zambia delayed introducing or implementing tobacco control legislation. Argentina and the Dominican Republic reduced tobacco taxes. South Korea's Ministry of Gender, Equality and Family awarded the country's largest cigarette firm the “Prime Minister Prize for ‘Family-friendly Company’”.
The Federal Government has been urged to de-normalize the Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) activities of the tobacco industry, as it is exploitative.
A new report from tobacco industry regulator STOP reveals that the industry embraced the COVID-19 pandemic as an opportunity to gain influence, meddle in life-saving health policies, and secure preferential treatment. Reports from civil society organizations in 80 countries, analyzed in the Global Tobacco Industry Interference Index 2021 , show that no country was immune to the efforts of this sector to use lobbying and donations to their advantage.
Based on the report from the tobacco industry regulator STOP , the Covid-19 pandemic functioned as an opportunity for the industry to gain greater influence on health policies. In the Global Tobacco Industry Interference Index 2021 , reports were shown revealing that no country, of the 80 nations observed, was immune to lobbying and donations on their behalf.
The tobacco industry has had no qualms about profiting from the COVID-19 pandemic, trying to clean up its image by assisting governments, while continuing to interfere with the implementation of the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC).
Indonesia, Japan, Switzerland, and the Dominican Republic are the least able to prevent industry meddling; Botswana, Chile, India and Spain among the advancing countries.
A new report from tobacco industry regulator STOP reveals that the industry embraced the COVID-19 pandemic as an opportunity to gain influence, meddle in life-saving health policies, and secure preferential treatment. Reports from civil society organizations in 80 countries, analyzed in the Global Tobacco Industry Interference Index 2021 , show that no country was immune to the efforts of this sector to use lobbying and donations to their advantage.
Africa against tobacco (ACONTA) launched the report on the index of interference from the tobacco industry in Burkina Faso, Monday, October 25, 2021 in Ouagadougou, in the presence of partner institutions in the fight against tobacco , in particular the Ministry of Industry, Trade and Handicrafts; the Minister of Health; the World Health Organization (WHO) in Burkina Faso and the Network of Journalists for the Fight against Tobacco in Burkina Faso (REJAT-BF). It was a moment of advocacy and calling out to bet more on the actions of struggle to counter the offensive of the tobacco industry for the purposes of preserving the health of the populations.
The report focuses on the progress in the implementation of Article 5.3 of the World Health Organisation Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (WHO FCTC)
Last Wednesday the Second Interference Index of the Tobacco Industry in Latin America 2021 was presented. It was coordinated by Corporate Accountability in collaboration with STOP, an international tobacco industry control organization. In it, they highlighted that almost a million people die each year from the consumption of tobacco products in Latin America and it has produced more deaths than Covid-19 in the region.
Dar es Salaam — Tobacco control campaigners said yesterday that the lack of strong laws against smoking in Tanzania continues to allow harmful consumption of the products, reversing the efforts invested in controlling non-communicable diseases (NCDs).
Dar es Salaam. Tobacco control campaigners said yesterday that the lack of strong laws against smoking in Tanzania continues to allow harmful consumption of the products, reversing the efforts invested in controlling non-communicable diseases (NCDs).
SANTO DOMINGO, RD.- The Dominican Republic ranks 96 of the 34 countries that have been monitored by the NGO Stopping Tobacco Organizations & Products (STOP) and Corporate Accountability, with the support of the Dominican Foundation for Obesity and Cardiovascular Prevention (FUNDO) .
Mexico fell back in the Regional Tobacco Industry Interference Index 2021, placing itself among the Latin American nations where the level of participation of the industry in the development of public policies increased, which contravenes the application of article 5.3 of the Framework Agreement for Tobacco Control of the World Health Organization.
SANTO DOMINGO, RD / HEALTH DRAFTING. - The Dominican Republic ranks 96th out of the 34 countries that have been monitored by the NGO Stopping Tobacco Organizations & Products (STOP) and Corporate Accountability , with the support of the Dominican Foundation for Obesity and Cardiovascular Prevention (FUNDO).
The efforts of governments and public authorities around the world to limit the influence of the tobacco industry have weakened during the coronavirus pandemic, according to the tobacco industry interference index published on November 2, 2021 by the global tobacco industry watchdog body STOP. The year 2020 was marked overall by an upsurge in the tobacco lobby and its influence in political decisions. The authors recommend transposing all of the CCLAT's protective measures in this area into national legislation.
