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• African Ministers say no Tobacco Use 

Jump to full article: Cameroon Radio Television (CRTV) (cm), 2009-03-04

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Health ministers from African countries made a declaration on tobacco control in Africa the continent yesterday in Yaounde.

A lot is still undone as regards tobacco control in Africa. Statistics indicate that 25 per cent of youths are tobacco consumers in Africa. Dr Luis Sambo, World Health Organisation (WHO), Regional Director for Africa says tobacco users suffer from chronic diseases and the public at large deserves protection from secondary inhalation.

That is why Ministers of health for the WHO Afro Region, during the occasion of the third meeting of the conference of the Parties to the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control holding, during the 58th session of the WHO Regional Committee for Africa, reaffirmed their commitment to control tobacco use in the region.

In a statement, the 46 ministers of health of the WHO African Region stood together and recommitted themselves to take all actions

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• End of Tobacco Publicity  

Jump to full article: All-Africa.com, 2007-07-11
Author: Brenda Yufeh / Cameroon Tribune (Yaound�)

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Most billboards carrying tobacco publicity in Yaounde have been ragged.

Be it from the Obili neighbourhood in Yaounde, passing through the Basic Education roundabout, to down town or the Bastos and Nlongkak roundabouts, one can not be indifferent to the absence of attractive billboards which use to carry publicity on tobacco. Messages and images on these billboards have been removed. This is in conformity with the law promulgated by the Head of State on 29 December 2006 on tobacco publicity. Article 39 of the law forbids publicity of tobacco in Cameroon and even the sponsorship of activities by tobacco firms. Parties concerned with the application and respect of the law are already at work. They have started by removing existing tobacco publicity banners in town.

Many people seem not to understand what is happening. Some days back, many students at the University of Yaounde I where taken aback when they saw the large tobacco publicity banner around the university removed. . . .

cigarette stands and other publicity tools used by tobacco firms such as umbrellas are still seen around town particularly with traders of tobacco. Experts say these things have to vanish.

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• Archive a Smoking Gun for Tobacco Firm 

Why British American released papers showing possible links to contraband sales remains a mystery.
Jump to full article: Los Angeles Times, 2003-11-23
Author: Myron Levin, Times Staff Writer

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British American created the archive to hold millions of pages of documents produced for the anti- tobacco suit filed by the state of Minnesota in 1994. Most of the records involve health and marketing issues that were the crux of the lawsuit.

But embedded in the mountains of paper are fistfuls of memos on British American's links to cigarette smuggling — documents that weren't pertinent to the lawsuit and that the company never was asked to produce. It turned them over anyway, for reasons that remain a mystery.

The smuggling papers chronicle British American's swashbuckling march through the developing world and the role of contraband sales in its global expansion. Among the papers are memos from high-ranking executives discussing the importance of illicit sales in maintaining or building market share against like-minded competitors in such locales as Lebanon, Argentina and China.

Their disclosure rocked the industry

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