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Report: Nigeria is Africa s second highest contributor to $26b cigarette butt pollution

Report: Nigeria is Africa s second highest contributor to $26b cigarette butt pollution
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South Africa, Nigeria Top List Of African Countries Contributing To $26Billion Annual Tobacco-related Plastic Pollution Cost

Nigeria and five other African countries have been listed as major contributors to environmental pollution caused by plastics in cigarette butts and packaging globally. This is contained in a press statement released by the African Tobacco Control Alliance, stating that the economic cost of environmental pollution is estimated at US$26 billion every year or US$186 billion every 10 years. The other African countries are South Africa, Sudan, Mozambique, Kenya and Ethiopia.

Moving hearts and minds: how the Big Tobacco, Tiny Targets campaign builds support for tobacco control policy

In this paper, we share background on the ‘Big Tobacco, Tiny Targets’ campaign, three short case studies from countries where the campaign had a substantial policy impact, keys to campaign success and campaign challenges. The campaign which demonstrated that the world’s biggest tobacco companies are targeting the world’s youth with tobacco marketing and advertising can be adapted by others in their tobacco control policy campaigns. The point-of-sale (POS), places where consumer goods are sold, is an important platform for marketing tobacco. Greater exposure to tobacco advertising and promotion at POS is associated with a greater likelihood of smoking among youth.1 2 In the USA, POS that adolescents visit regularly display more tobacco advertising than POS in the same community that are less popular with youth.3 In 2015, the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids (Tobacco-Free Kids), a US-based non-profit advocacy organisation focused on reducing tobacco use globally, collaborated wit

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