Community-Based Advocacy Opportunities for Tobacco Control: Experience from Tanzania  

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Kagaruki, Lutgard K.

Jenis: Article from Article
Dalam koleksi: Global Health Promotion vol. 17 no. 2 (2010), page 41-44.
Topik: Advocacy Campaigns; Community; Tobacco Control; Tobacco Farmers; Tobacco Production; Tobacco Use
Fulltext: 41.full.pdf (75.21KB)

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Tanzania is third in Africa in tobacco production after Malawi and Zimbabwe. In spite of increased production, Tanzania remains a poor country, with tobacco farmers getting poorer and the country losing more than 16,500 hectares of forests annually from tobacco curing alone. Tanzania grows fire-cured and air-cured tobacco. Regarding tobacco use, 35%of Tanzanians smoke tobacco regularly and about 32% of all cancers at Ocean Road Cancer Institute are attributed to tobacco use, with the country spending more than $30m annually to treat tobacco-related cancers. Unfortunately, knowledge on tobacco-related hazards is limited even among policy/decision makers. However, surveys indicate that more than 65% of resource-poor tobacco farmers favour alternative livelihoods when assured of sustainable markets. There is need of intensifying advocacy campaigns against tobacco, in order to improve the socio-economic status of tobacco farmers, enhance public health and sustain the environment in Tanzania.

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