Tag Archives: tobacco

  Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Tobacco harm reduction activists are urging the government to revise the Tobacco Control Act to incorporate the harm reduction principle.  Tobacco harm reduction is a public health strategy that is about minimizing the negative health impact of smoking. A harm reduction strategy for …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Ministry of Health has raised concern over a new cigarette brand on the market which they say risks undoing efforts so far made towards reduction of smoking in the country. Dr Hafisa Lukwata, the Tobacco Control Focal Person in the Ministry of Health …

🚭 Quit Smoking 🧪 Take Early Detection Test 🤸‍♂️ Exercise Regularly 🍴 Eat Healthy Geneva, Switzerland | THE INDEPENDENT | The Union for International Control (UICC), which drives the campaign for World Cancer Day on 4 February, has called on governments around the world to prioritise four policy actions to …

Arua, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Local leaders in West Nile under their umbrella body, West Nile Development Association (WENDA) have resolved to adopt vegetable production as an alternative to tobacco. Farmers and locals in West Nile have been stuck to growing tobacco and simsim, as their main source of income over …

| THE INDEPENDENT | A new study has found that 23% of cigarettes sold in Uganda appear to be illicit, indicating unfair competition to the established tobacco products dealers and loss of revenue to government. The findings based on the BAT Uganda’s approved study that was carried out in the …

  Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Cigarette dealer, British American Tobacco Uganda, will pay its shareholders Shs 209per share, translating into Shs 10.2billion as dividend. This is nearly 50% lower compared to Shs 19.9billion paid in 2020 due to a drop in profit. BATU pays 100% of its profit as …

Mexico city, Mexico | Xinhua | The tobacco industry and tobacco consumption are exacerbating soil, air and water pollution, along with deforestation, according to one expert. “The tobacco industry is one of the main causes of global deforestation, since it cuts down trees to create an area for tobacco plants, which …

Lamwo, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Numerous grades of tobacco, language barrier, and inadequate storage facilities are limiting farmers in Lamwo district from earning a fair amount from their harvests. There is an estimated 1,000 tobacco farmers in Lamwo district. They grow and sell tobacco to Meridian Tobacco Company-MTC, the sole …

Sydney, Australia | Xinhua | Researchers from Australia’s University of Queensland’s (UQ) School of Public Health called for a restriction of tobacco sales in Australia as the next step towards phasing out tobacco related products completely. In a perspective article published in the Medical Journal of Australia (MJA) on Monday, UQ …

Smoking if unregulated could worsen respiratory diseases in Africa 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 …