Tanzania: Now Dar Backs Down On

Nairobi — THE TANZANIA government has allowed the Tanzania Cigarette Company, the country's only cigarette-making firm, to continue advertising its products on huge billboards across the country as long as it places warnings on the dangers that could befall users.

This comes in the wake of aggressive lobbying by TCC. In most countries of the world, according to the World Health Organisation (WHO), billboard adverts have been the first target in the fight against smoking.

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