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Africa: Quit Or Die - The Moral Dilemma Facing Tobacco Harm Reduction Interventions
InfoWire, 26 October 2023
Forty-seven years on since Professor Michael Russell’s famous quotation, people are still dying from tar despite smoking for nicotine, the World Health Organisation (WHO)… Read more »
The Moral Dilemma Facing Tobacco Harm Reduction Interventions
Forty-seven years on since Professor Michael Russell's famous quotation, people are still dying from tar despite smoking for nicotine, the World Health Organisation (WHO) estimates the annual death toll from smoking combustible cigarettes to be over 8 million, with the latest WHO data as of August 2023 showing that more than 7 million of those deaths result from direct tobacco use.
Public health interventions have resulted in a number of regulations being imposed to control tobacco smoking and force smokers to quit totally. Quitting smoking or smoking cessation is by far the most effective Tobacco Harm Reduction (THR) intervention, and those who succeed in quitting before age 40 can return almost all those years by reducing chances of tobacco-related death by 90 percent. Public health data shows that smoking causes more than a decade of life loss.
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Africa: Should the Media Take a Neutral Stance In the Tobacco Harm Reduction Discourse?
InfoWire, 26 October 2023
The late South African Philanthropist and clergyman, Archbishop Desmond Tutu once said, “If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the… Read more »
