Tobacco Control in Africa - TCA

Promotion of Smoking... Nollywood’s Bad Example

Elsewhere in the United States, the agitation to stop smoking in movies was started by doctors about 25 years ago and the campaign is still on. Apart from violence, one seeming anti-social scene in Nigeria's popular home movie series, otherwise called Nollywood, is the spectre of smoking. Anti-tobacco activists say this is a negation of the law that bars tobacco firms from advertising. Godwin Haruna writes in This Day.

Elèves fumeurs à Douala

Un article du quotidien Mutations.

Maroc: Lancement d'une campagne de sensibilisation au cancer

Une nouvelle campagne de prévention du cancer vise à réduire les cas évitables de la maladie dans le pays. La thérapie contre le cancer est tres coûteuse au Maroc, et nombre de familles ne peuvent avoir accès aux centres de traitement.

South Africa: Taxes Not Laws Stamp Out Smoking

Despite all the sound and fury surrounding tough new legislation on smoking, Finance Minister Trevor Manuel has emerged as the unlikely hero of the drive to reduce smoking in SA.

Public hearings have so far focused on the prohibition of tobacco advertising, tough new rules that will further restrict where people may smoke and a call for further restrictions on the industry.

Sessions sur le tabac au congrès de pneumologie

Le 11e congrès de pneumologie de langue française commence demain à Lyon.
Quelques intervenants Africains sur le tabagisme dans la liste ci-dessous.

Namibia: Tobacco Bill Being Drafted As Act of Parliament

The long-awaited legislation that the government is to introduce to ban smoking in public places, is still with the legal drafters.