Tobacco Control in Africa - TCA

Angelique Kidjo: very much anti-tobacco

As an artist/advocate, could she do more to promote tobacco control policies in Africa? Has she been asked to? 

WHO: Dr. Margaret Chan's speech on the occasion of the 100th International Women's Day on 8th March 2011

Signaled by Mary Okioma, Executive Director of Women for Justice in Africa (Nairobi)

Address by Margraret Chan to WHO staff on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of International Women’s Day (Geneva, Switzerland, 8 March 2011)

Colleagues, ladies and gentlemen,

In 1968, the Philip Morris tobacco company introduced Virginia Slims. This was a cigarette designed, packaged, and aggressively marketed to young professional women. The ads usually contrasted an old-fashioned sepia-tinted photo of household drudgery or women doing farm work with the image of a fashionable, liberated, young and, of course, very slim female smoker. The ad campaign was fabulously successful and its slogan became famous: You’ve come a long way, baby.

World No Tobacco Day, May 31 2010: women as target of the tobacco industry

 The World Health Organization has chosen to focus the communication for this WNTD about the marketing of tobacco products to women. Read the press release and see all the posters.

Women Testify About Tobacco Farming in Ethiopia and Kenya

TESTIMONY - Presented by International Network of Women Against Tobacco
(INWAT) and the International Alliance of Women (IAW).
For the WHO hearings February 26, Brasilia, in connection with the WHO
Study group meeting on alternative crops (27-28 February), Brasilia.
Hadda Wolde Giorgis, Deputy Director of the Centre for Human Environment in
Ethiopia and Litha Musyimi-Ogana from Kenya.