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Leading Healthcare Advocate Urges Evidence-Based Tobacco Harm Reduction Policies

Online— Leading healthcare advocate and former President of the World Medical Association, Dr Kgosi Letlape, delivered a passionate address advocating

Africa in need of a tobacco control policy built on scientific risk assessment

The Campaign for Safer Alternatives (CASA), an organisation based in Kenya, working with various stakeholders, including policymakers, on key issues

Smoking: Africa must prioritise Harm Reduction – experts

With about eight million people dying annually due to smoking-related illnesses and outright quitting being difficult for most smokers, experts

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Africa needs tobacco harm reduction sensitisation

Tobacco Harm Reduction (THR) experts have called for more effort in sensitising Africans to the benefits of the harm reduction

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Não é sobre religião nem crença, é sobre ciência

Não é sobre religião nem crença, é sobre ciência – Foi uma das intervenções mais contundentes do 2º Intercâmbio sobre

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Tobacco control

Issues surrounding health of tobacco smokers and people around them has long been a serious cause of worry. At the second

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Adopt new products to curb tobacco-related deaths, African government told

AFRICAN governments have been implored to adopt new strategies to reduce public health threats caused by tobacco as eight million

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Science-Led Regulations – The panacea to tobacco Harm Reduction in Africa

Tobacco control in Africa remains a major factor in the Tobacco Harm Reduction (THR) equation. While there are no specific laws

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Navigating Obstacles To Tobacco Harm Reduction Efforts In Africa

SMOKING prevalence is relatively low on the African continent despite projections by the World Health Organisation (WHO) that the total number

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Kenya urged to adopt nicotine alternatives

Kenya has been urged to accelerate the availability of alternatives to tobacco products, which can potentially lower the health risks

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Cigar smokers can switch to lower risk products

Cigarette smokers have a plethora of products available to them that reduce the harm caused by smoking, writes BONISILE MAKHUBU. These

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Tobacco: Why Africa must prioritise harm reduction – Expert

By Ngozi Nwoke Worried by the growing evidence of tobacco use and given its impact on public health, experts from various fields

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Media has a Role in Accelerating Harm Reduction Adoption

African Scientists and Experts Call for the adoption of a Harm Reduction in approach in Public Health Strategies and Tobacco

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Media has a role in accelerating harm reduction adoption

Media has a critical role to play in accelerating Harm Reduction efforts by informing and sensitizing cigarette smokers on the

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Quit or die sooner

Abdoul Kassé, world renowned oncologist and a professor of surgery at the Cancer Institute in Senegal, has warned smokers to

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Technology key in reducing smoking harm – experts

Technology and alternatives will play key role in reducing effects of cigarette smoking in Africa. This as reports show e-cigarette

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Role Of Media In Accelerating Cigarettes’ Harm Reduction

Media have a critical role to play in accelerating Harm Reduction efforts by informing and sensitizing cįgarette smokers on the

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Harm reduction key in public health strategies and tobacco control

MEDIA has been called upon to play a critical role in accelerating harm reduction efforts by informing and sensitizing cigarette

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Media crucial in countering tobacco harm reduction misinformation

Phillip Morris International (PMI) says misinformation has hampered its campaign to replace combustible cigarettes with tobacco harm reduction alternatives. “But

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Vaping Towards Cessation – Can Tobacco Harm Reduction Increase Smoking Quit Ratio?

Professor Michael Russell, often referred to as the godfather of Tobacco Harm Reduction (THR), highlighted in one of his writings that  “People smoke

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