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

AFRICAN governments have been implored to adopt new strategies to reduce public health threats caused by tobacco as eight million deaths are recorded every year.

Health experts, who converged in Nairobi, Kenya, last week at the second edition of the Harm Reduction Exchange, noted that the tobacco epidemic is one of the biggest public health threats the world has ever faced.

The panel of experts included Abdoul Kassé, an oncologist at Senegal’s Cancer Institute; Tendai Mhizha, chief executive officer of Integra Africa; Vivian Manyeki, Letlape Kgosi, Bernice Apondi, Joseph Magero, Jonathan Fell, Chimwemwe Ngoma and Clive Bates.

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