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Anti-Tobacco Alliance, “Waste of time, a recipe for avoidable suffering” 

In a communiqué issued at the end of African Regional Strategy meeting on Tobacco Control, under the aegis of the Framework Convention Alliance (FCA), the Abuja delegates described as “alarming” the spread of the tobacco epidemic in Africa. . . .

The Abuja conference observed that there was a switch of the marketing strategies of the tobacco industry; from the more informed regions of the world to the African continent. To this effect, it called on all African governments that are yet to ratify the FCTC to do so immediately, urging a speedy action for domestication of the treaty for those who have already ratified it. “Any waste of time is recipe for avoidable suffering and tobacco-related deaths,” they stressed.

In a display of renewed effort, the group also endorsed African Tobacco Control Alliance (ATCA) as an umbrella body to harmonise the tobacco control efforts of non-governmental organisations in Africa.

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