Tobacco Control in Africa - TCA

2013/2014 IDRC grant about taxation and smuggling in Eritrea

This $79K grant aims at assessing the impact of tobacco taxation, smuggling, and street vending on consumption, and its implication for tobacco control in Eritrea.

Uganda: how the tobacco farms increase the deforestation

In an article in the East African, Hamina Abdallah describes the gloomy environmental impact of the tobacco farms in Uganda. Apparently BAT declined to comment about those destructive practices.

How many journalists jailed in Eritrea?

While Eritrea was awarded a grant by IDRC to promote tobacco control its government continues to jail and torture journalists as detailed by Reporters without borders. Is this acceptable? In Cameroon a journalist just died in jail.

Eritrea: two tobacco control conferences

The conferences were about the Tobacco Free Schools Initiative and the use of tobacco by Eritrean Health professionals.

Source: IDRC' site.

Tobacco in Eritrea

Looking for information about tobacco in Eritrea I found this article by Amanuel Sahle published in 2007 on Shaebia.org. It is more about the past than about the situation now. If you have data about what's happening now, let us know.

Also this paper by Victoria Bernal about the Eritrean Diaspora in cyberspace (pdf format).

Links at dehai.org , WHO's page, prevalence among adults (2005): women 1.2%, men 16.9%