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KAMUGISHA: Remedy to Chronic Smoking in Rwanda 

We need community based health programmes in place. In communities where two-thirds of the population do not read and write, it is crucial to devise simple and low budget programmes.

The Health ministries, health groups and non- government organisations (NGOs) should play an active role in spearheading the campaign for tobacco control programmes. There are simply not enough tobacco control advocates to handle this project alone. Health groups and other anti-tobacco lobbies can play a key role in the development of comprehensive national tobacco control programmes.

We have to face up to tobacco crop cultivation and stop all subsidies for cultivation.

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