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Adverts on Alcohol, Tobacco Scrutinised 

Five major points featured on the agenda of the National Advertisement Council which met in extraordinary session in Yaounde yesterday. Introducing into the law dispositions that will enable the council regulate advertisement on alcohol, tobacco and health; poor practices of some councils in the award of contracts on advertisements; illegal exercise by some economic actors of the profession of advertisement managers; examining the law of 29 July, 1989 on the organization and functioning of the National Advertisement Council and regulating newsworthy advertisements.

Presided at by the Minister of Communication, Prof. Pierre Moukoko Mbonjo, members of the council set out to put order in the sector not only by rethinking the possible modifications that can be made to the law regulating the advertisement profession, but by ensuring, through the council's administrative structures, that actors in the business do not abuse the existing law. From the look of things, such rampant abuses had become excessive with advertisements in alcohol, tobacco and health. In order to better protect the population against health hazards that may come as a result of these activities, the council decided to put an end to it. This will be done by adapting the law in such a way as to pre-empt imminent disorders which can tarnish the image of Cameroon and eventually go against universal practices.

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