tobacco

Stakeholders warn of influx of banned tobacco products

Reading Time: < 1 minute The country is saturated with nicotine products State banned in 2019 and 2021, investigation shows. LYFT, now being sold as […]

Climate talks a chance to call out tobacco industry

Reading Time: 2 minutes Next week, Egypt will host the 27th UN Climate Change Conference (COP 27), with a view to building on previous […]

Tobacco growers in Migori switch to beans farming

Reading Time: 3 minutes A total of 406 acres of tobacco farms in Migori County have been transformed into alternative crops by tobacco growers. […]

We must stem increasing use of tobacco by women

Reading Time: 3 minutes Africa is experiencing an increasing rate of tobacco use. The rapid growth of the population in Sub-Saharan Africa and an […]

Experts: 200,000 minors use tobacco, marijuana

Reading Time: 2 minutes Health experts have warned that about 200, 000 minors aged 15 years and below in Nairobi are actively using tobacco […]

Teacher wins global tobacco award

Reading Time: 3 minutes A Kenyan teacher and a tobacco control advocate Joel Shunza Gitali is the winner of this year’s World No Tobacco […]

Tobacco industries should clean up their mess

Reading Time: 2 minutes We celebrated World No Tobacco Day, a global event to make an effort to minimise the use of tobacco, on […]

Youths top tobacco abuse list, study says

Reading Time: 2 minutes A study conducted in four counties has shown that the prevalence of tobacco use among the youth in Kenya is […]

Tobacco board aims to create smoke-free healthy, generation

Reading Time: 2 minutes Tobacco Control Board (TCB) has called on Kenyans to work towards eradicating use of drugs, which continue to significantly destroy […]

How tobacco industry uses front groups to advance interests

Reading Time: 2 minutes The tobacco epidemic is one of the biggest public health threats the world has ever faced, killing more than 8 […]