25 Patients Out of 100 Admitted at JKCI Suffer From Tobacco Smoking
TWENTY - five patients out of 100 admitted at the Jakaya Kikwete Cardiac Institute (KJCI) with cardiac complications suffer from tobacco intake.
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October 22, 2025
Tobacco industry targets WHO FCTC COP and MOP negotiations, Parties urged to stay vigilant
The Secretariat of the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (WHO FCTC) is alerting governments and the public that the tobacco industry is intensifying efforts to interfere with the work of the Conference of the Parties (COP), the treaty’s decision-making body, to weaken global tobacco control measures.
The WHO FCTC is the first treaty negotiated under the auspices of WHO and one of the most widely and rapidly embraced United Nations treaties in history. A total of 183 Parties have joined the Convention, which entered into force 20 years ago.
WHO FCTC Article 5.3 – A Vaccine for Curbing the Tobacco Pandemic
A powerful tool to protect governments from tobacco industry interference remains underutilised, while the tobacco industry stepped up its meddling in health policy during the COVID-19 pandemic. This is the main finding of the Global Tobacco Industry Interference Index (Index) which reviews government efforts in 80 countries to implement Article 5.3 of the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC). Article 5.3 is an obligation in the treaty that empowers governments to end the tobacco industry’s decades of manipulation and deceit that derail efforts to protect public health.
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Switzerland, a stronghold of the influence of tobacco companies in Europe
Switzerland is in penultimate place in the ranking of the new tobacco industry interference index, and in last place in Europe. This poor score clearly underlines that Switzerland is the European stronghold of the tobacco industry, which finds in this country a very favorable reception to its actions of influence, to the detriment of public health.
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Mexico Registers an Increase in Tobacco Industry Interference in Policies
Mexico still faces great challenges, especially in terms of public health due to the increase in the participation of the tobacco industry in the establishment and application of public health policies on tobacco control , according to the Tobacco Industry Interference Index .
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Irresponsible! Tobacco Companies and Officials Organized Mass Forums in the Middle of the Pandemic
Despite the mandatory confinement due to the Covid-19 pandemic, Tobacco industry executives and officials led a series of public forums to discuss cigarette smoking.
www.publimetro.com.mx
Tobacco Companies Increase their Activity in Decision-making in Mexico, Warns Specialist
Tobacco companies in the country increased their interference in the creation of public policies, revealed the Regional Report Interference of Tobacco Companies in Mexico .
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RD Was Influenced by Tobacco Companies
The tobacco industry used the Covid-19 pandemic as an opportunity to gain influence in the governments of 80 countries, which were vulnerable to lobbying and charitable donations from those companies, according to a report published yesterday by the control group STOP. (Stopping Tobacco Organizations and Products) an alliance funded by Bloomberg Philanthropies.
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Report: Tobacco Took Advantage of Pandemic
A new report from tobacco industry watchdog STOP suggests that the tobacco industry embraced the Covid-19 pandemic as an opportunity to gain influence, sway 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 industry’s efforts to use lobbying and donations, often connected to the pandemic response, to its advantage.
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African Campaigners Urge Enhanced Tobacco Regulations Amid Health Risks
Nairobi, Kenya | Xinhua | The manufacturing, sale and consumption of tobacco products in Africa should be regulated in order to limit threats to public health and safety, campaigners said on Tuesday. Leonce Sessou, executive secretary of African Tobacco Control Alliance, stressed that enactment of laws and public education is required to curb unhealthy use of tobacco products like cigarettes in a rapidly urbanizing continent.
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Reformas "Antitabaco"Llegan Chimuelas A Senado Por Interferencias De La Insdustria
When Dr. Frank F. Tylecote discovered the first cancer-causing evidence for tobacco and published it in the scientific journal The Lancet in 1925, the tobacco industry undertook a publicity strategy to counter the finding: he promoted the smoker's lifestyle as something positive through magazines, movies, athletes and even during warlike moments like World War II. He also began lobbying with public officials.
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Greater Intervention by Tobacco Companies Warned
Mexico has worsened compared to other Latin American countries, in the third Interference Index of the Tobacco Industry, due to the increase in the participation of companies in the establishment and application of public health policies on tobacco control, affirmed representatives of Civil society organizations.
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Report Reveals Tobacco Companies Have Had "a High Degree of Interference" in the Government of the DR and Other Countries
The tobacco industry used the COVID-19 pandemic as an opportunity to gain influence in the governments of 80 countries, which were vulnerable to lobbying and charitable donations from those companies, according to a report published Tuesday by the watchdog group, STOP.
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UK Fails to Regain Number One Position for Second Year Running
The latest data from the Global Tobacco Index shows that the UK still has work to do on preventing tobacco industry interference in policy and legislation.
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European Tobacco Industry Interference Index 2021
The European Tobacco Industry Interference Index 2021 analyzes how 16 countries in the WHO European Region and the institutions of the European Union are affected by tobacco industry, and how far they have progressed in the implementation of Article 5.3 and its Guidelines that were unanimously adopted.
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Tobacco Industry ‘Used COVID-19’ to Influence Governments Especially in Switzerland, Index Finds
The tobacco industry used the COVID-19 pandemic to ingratiate itself with governments around the world and win concessions for their harmful products, according to a review of 80 countries analyzed in the Global Tobacco Industry Interference Index 2021, which was released on Tuesday.
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Tobacco Companies Stepped Up Influence Efforts During Covid, Report Finds
Firms increased charitable donations to the healthcare sector, and was ‘unnecessarily’ involved in fight against illicit trade in cigarettes, global industry watchdog says
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Launch of the Regional Tobacco Industry Interference Index in Latin America
The document to be presented reflects the main findings and recommendations on how these countries can further protect tobacco control policies from interference by the Tobacco Industry.
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They Accuse Tobacco Companies of Taking Advantage of the Pandemic to Influence Governments
New York, Nov 2 (EFE) .- The tobacco industry used the covid-19 pandemic as an opportunity to gain influence in the governments of eighty countries, which were vulnerable to lobbying and charitable donations from those companies, according to a report published Tuesday by the STOP control group.
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Tobacco Industry Lobby Index: Switzerland Ranks Second to Last Worldwide
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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L’ACTA appelle les gouvernements africains à protéger leurs efforts de lutte
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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