The smoke FREE public place awards | Success Story
The Tobacco Control Acts stipulates that smoking in public places and 50 meters of it is prohibited. The aim of the Smoke FREE public place awards was to recognize those places which have complied with this regulation in the Tobacco Control Act. How the Smoke …
Central Region Smoke Free Public Place Award – Uganda
The Tobacco Control Act Sections 11, 12 and 13 stipulates that every person has a right to a Tobacco Smoke-Free Environment. It continues to state that a person shall not smoke in a public place, workplace or in any means of public transport. Tobacco Smoking …
Why smoking is a woman’s worst enemy
The growing trend of women smoking is a concern to health experts. Charles Baguma, a coordinator at Uganda Health Communication Alliance, says according to a Global Youth Tobacco Survey done five years ago by the Centre for Tobacco Control in Africa, young females have overtaken …
Government should ratify protocol to end trade in tobacco products
Uganda Revenue Authority (URA) bust a Shs3b cigarette smuggling racket following a tip off from their intelligence officers. The tax body on April 8, 2018 intercepted a brand new Toyota Premio at Kalerwe, a Kampala suburb on Gayaza Road and this would later lead them …
18 Arrested for Selling Shisha in Kampala Operation
The Uganda Police has arrested eighteen people suspected of involvement in the sale of Shisha in various Entertainment hangouts in the Capital, Kampala. Shisha smoking, also called hookah, narghile, water pipe or hubble bubble smoking, is a way of tobacco smoking, sometimes mixed with fruit …
The Death Trap Products.
[Photo Source: Canadian Cancer Society] I enjoy having a meal in a Kafunda, well, for the most obvious reason, the food is cheap, secondly, Kafunda restaurants have the best cooked local foods but above all, I love them for the random conversations people have openly. …
Shisha Free Mbarara : A Success Story of Tobacco Control
About 36 people die every day from tobacco related diseases in Uganda. This translates into three commuter taxis full of people perishing as a result of a single substance. Mbarara, Western Uganda’s biggest town is amongst the fastest growing areas in Uganda. As any urban …
South Sudan minister arrested in anti-shisha operation in Kampala
At least 17 people, including a South Sudan government official, were arrested in bars and detained on Saturday on allegations of smoking tobacco in public places. Police in Kampala said the suspects, one of whom identified himself as a minister in the East African country …
Mourning Tobacco deaths in Mbale
Today, Uganda Health Communication Alliance joined the community of Mbale District to mourn tobacco related deaths. Together with the district leaders, the people called for the strict implementation of the Tobacco Control Act 2015 to curb the tobacco related deaths. UHCA’s Coordinator Baguma Richard called …