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Tobacco Industry Launches Anti-Youth Smoking Programme 

The British American Tobacco (Mauritius) launched Wednesday the Youth Smoking Programme to discourage vendors from selling cigarettes to minors. Manoj Ujoodha, Corporate and regulatory affairs manager told PANA in Port-Louis that smoking is an adult choice and that minors should not smoke.

He recalled a study by the Mauritian health ministry conducted last year which indicated that most under-age smokers buy their own cigarettes and that their behaviour is linked to three factors - smoking parents, smoking brothers and sisters and alcohol-consumption. "These conclusions have been communicated to vendors."

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