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Calls on govts to provide enabling environment By Chioma Obinna The World Health Organisation, WHO, on Tuesday launched a year-long global campaign for World No Tobacco Day 2021 tagged: “Commit to Quit” even as it called on all governments to ensure their citizens have access to brief advice, toll-free quitlines, mobile and digital cessation services,
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…Calls for 70% tax increase on tobacco By Gabriel Ewepu and Alice Ekpang THE Nigeria Tobacco Control Alliance, NTCA, disclosed that 246 men die weekly from tobacco related diseases in Nigeria. This was made known by the Board Chairman, NTCA, Akinbode Olufemi, during a media briefing in Abuja while presenting report titled: ‘Survey To Assess
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Calls for 70% tax increase on tobacco By Gabriel Ewepu and Alice Ekpang – Abuja The Nigeria Tobacco Control Alliance, NTCA, disclosed that 246 men die weekly from tobacco-related diseases in Nigeria. This was made known by the Board Chairman, NTCA, Akinbode Olufemi, during a media briefing in Abuja while presenting report titled, ‘Survey To
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Evidence abounds that the tobacco industry targets low and middle-income countries and continues to invest heavily in the promotion of its harmful products in these countries. Nigeria is particularly a target of the industry owing to many reasons.
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The Nigeria Tobacco Control Alliance, NTCA, and the Corporate Accountability and Public Participation Africa, CAPPA, have launched the 2020 tobacco industry interference index report for Nigeria.
Read More By Oluwarotimi Adebayo The war on tobacco must be total. It must be waged on all fronts and with the same precision that the tobacco industry deploys to addict our youths to tobacco and circumvent tobacco control policies. All true stakeholders must be involved in blocking loopholes that the industry exploits to carry on business
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By Hilda Ochefu The current pandemic (COVID-19) slowly sneaked into the world through Wuhan, China, late 2019 and then took us all by surprise. In January 2020, governments, corporations and organisations were very busy developing their strategies and fine-tuning what the year was going to look like and in their optimist predictions, never imagined that
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By Bernadette Chime In times of crisis, some corporations profit while others break. For the tobacco industry, the COVID-19 pandemic which has shut down many nations and crippled the global economy seems “a make or break opportunity”. In the last four months the industry has tried hard to brush aside the blame for the deaths
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By Johnbosco Agbakwuru The Federal Government has commenced the implementation of increment on tobacco products. The Research Associate of Centre for the Study of Economies of Africa, Mma Amara Ekeruche disclosed at a media briefing organized by the Environmental Rights Action /Friends of the Earth Nigeria, ERA/FoEN in Abuja. Ekeruche said that the increment of
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Winners have emerged in the Environmental Rights Action/Friends of the Earth Nigeria, ERA/FoEN, Tobacco Control Rap Challenge.
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