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?
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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.
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The Vision for Alternative Development (VALD) has reiterated its call to government of Ghana to ban the sale of single-stick cigarette in the country.
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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.
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Alliance between parliamentarians and members of the federal government aims to influence the Brazilian position at a WHO conference
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Egypt is launching the “Tobacco 2019” report, this evening, Tuesday, through the Zoom electronic application, “in view of the precautionary measures for the Corona virus,” as well as the “Egypt Tobacco Observatory,” which is the first observatory of its kind working in this field in Egypt and the Middle East, and the fourth in the world. .
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Dr. Essam El-Maghazi, head of the Anti-Smoking, Tuberculosis and Chest Diseases Association in Cairo, said that one of the most important methods adopted by tobacco companies is their exaggeration in maximizing the economic return of this industry, and that it contributes to the economic support of societies, and the pressures that this poses on different governments, but it It ignores talking about the losses incurred by these societies, as a result of the harms of smoking, whether it is exorbitant money spent on public health, which exceeds all imaginations, or the collapse of human forces that depend on smoking in their daily lives in the long run.
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Dr. Doaa Saleh, coordinator of the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control 2030 project, said that Egypt was chosen among 15 countries to provide support for the implementation of the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control, and was chosen for this project because it presented a strong strategy to combat it, and became a political commitment to implement the terms of the agreement.
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Fatima Al-Awa: Tobacco companies are working to weaken the field of tobacco control Dr. said. Fatima Al-Awa, Adviser to the Tobacco Control Initiative, Regional Office of the World Health Organization, said that each country party to the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control adheres to some measures to control tobacco, and there is great hope that the Egyptian Observatory for Tobacco Control will detect the interventions of tobacco companies to promote their industry, circumvent them and penetrate them in the field of tobacco control.
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Dr. Essam al-Maghazi, President of the Association Against Smoking, tuberculosis and chest diseases in cairo, stressed that the 2019 egypt tobacco control report highlights the ability of governments to resist the destructive movements of the tobacco industry.
Dr. Fatima al-Awa, advisor to the tobacco control initiative at the who regional office, said that each country party to the framework convention on tobacco control is committed to some tobacco control measures, and there is great hope that the egypt tobacco control observatory will detect tobacco companies' interventions to promote their industry, circumvent them and penetrate into weakening tobacco control.
Dr. Essam al-Maghazi, president of the association against smoking, tuberculosis and chest diseases in Cairo, stressed that the 2019 Egypt tobacco control report highlights the ability of governments to resist the destructive movements of the tobacco industry. This report relies on publicly available information, in newspapers, magazines and the internet, as well as the websites of tobacco companies, and the index scores range from 0 to 100, based on the assessment of seven key areas, relating to the extent to which cigarette companies intervene, to bypass anti-smoking policies, and the lower the index score, this is evidence of the extent to which governments are able to resist the intervention of the tobacco industry.
There was a time when tobacco companies could market their deadly and addictive products with cartoon characters, svelte women and handsome Cowboys. Decades later, with growing evidence and public awareness of the harms of tobacco use, such unscrupulous advertising has been outlawed in many countries. Now, there is increasing evidence that the purveyors of cigarettes and other tobacco and nicotine products look hungrily at Africa, a region ripe for expanding demand for their products.
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On November 30, Ukrinform hosted a presentation of the second Global Index of Tobacco Industry Interference in Healthcare Policy. Ukraine with 68 points took 27th place out of 33 in the ranking. This figure is worse than the previous report for 2017-2018, when the result was 61 points.
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