Top bosses warn government on illicit tobacco, which accounts for 20% of market By Patrick Kagenda In recent years, shareholders of British American Tobacco Uganda (BATU) have come to always look forward to the first two weeks of May, the period when the company has traditionally held its annual general …
Read More »Time to snuff out tobacco growing in Uganda
By Harold Acemah Romantic stories about tobacco sales paying school fees for our children is lopsided and short-sighted Right from colonial days, West Nile and the kingdom of Bunyoro-Kitara have been the major tobacco growing regions of Uganda and in the West Nile region, Terego County – where I come …
Read More »World No Tobacco Day
By Henry Zakumumpa The tobacco control bill can protect children and young people from tobacco advertising Every year on May 31, the world stops to reflect on the millions of lives lost to tobacco use around the world and the one billion set to lose their lives to tobacco use …
Read More »Tobacco to kill one billion people
By Henry Zakumumpa Epidemic already killing more people than AIDS, TB, and malaria combined The Tobacco diseases epidemic is already with us in Africa’’ says Prof Peter Odhiambo, Chairman of Kenya Tobacco Control Board. ‘’Soon you will hear people announcing that the epidemic is coming to Africa. It is already …
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