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Public health experts visit Malawi and Kenya, arguing that Africans <\/i> <\/b> must have access to lower-risk alternatives to smoking<\/i> <\/b><\/p>\n

LONDON, March 18, 2019 \/PRNewswire\/ —\u00a0Smoking tobacco results in the world’s deadliest preventable diseases, ending the lives of half of all smokers prematurely. By the end of the century, the World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that one billion people will have died from a smoking-related disease<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Globally, smoking rates are decreasing, but in many lower and middle income countries, African nations among them, rates are increasing. WHO data show a steep rise in smoking in many African countries, with many 5-year projected increases at 5% and more<\/a>.i<\/sup><\/p>\n

Public health experts from UK-based Knowledge\u2219Action\u2219Change<\/a><\/b>\u00a0have this week visited Lilongwe, Malawiii<\/sup> and Nairobi, Kenyaiii<\/sup> to launch No Fire, No Smoke \u2013 The Global State of Tobacco Harm Reduction 2018\u00a0(GSTHR)<\/a><\/i>,<\/i>\u00a0a landmark report on the worldwide availability, regulation, and use of lower-risk alternatives to tobacco, such as e-cigarettes (vapes), heat-not-burn devices, and Swedish snus (pasteurized oral tobacco).<\/p>\n

A proven public health strategy, harm reduction refers to policies, regulations, and actions that reduce health risks by providing safer forms of hazardous products or encouraging less risky behaviors, rather than simply banning them.<\/p>\n

Independent evidence from the UK government’s leading public health body demonstrated recently that vaping is at least 95% safer than smoking tobacco<\/a>.\u00a0Yet despite the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC) of 2003<\/a> citing harm reduction as one of its main tactics, the WHO has been persistently negative about e-cigarettes, has called for their ban or strict regulation, and sees them as a threat, rather than as a public health opportunity.<\/p>\n

Partnering with\u00a0the information dissemination project, Tobacco Harm Reduction Malawi<\/a><\/b>,<\/b>\u00a0and the newly launched Campaign for Safer Alternatives<\/a><\/b>\u00a0<\/b>based in Kenya, the GSTHR report’s publishers presented global findings on tobacco harm reduction, showing that many smokers have switched to safer products and dramatically reduced the risks associated with smoking.<\/p>\n

“We need to halt the dramatic rises in smoking rates in Africa which are predicted by WHO,” asserted Professor Gerry Stimson, Director of Knowledge<\/b>\u2219<\/b>Action<\/b>\u2219<\/b>Change and Emeritus Professor at Imperial College London. <\/b>“Most smokers want to quit smoking, but they find it hard to stop using nicotine. Around the world, millions of lives depend on both consumer and government acceptance of safer alternatives to smoking.”<\/p>\n

Chimwemwe Ngoma, Project Manager, Tobacco Harm Reduction Malawi and holder of a Global Tobacco Harm Reduction Scholarship<\/b>, declared: “Tobacco Harm Reduction Malawi believes that all citizens of Malawi should be informed of the health consequences, addictive nature, and mortal threat posed by tobacco consumption and exposure to\u00a0tobacco smoke. Malawians should be able to make more informed public and personal choices, including having access to safer nicotine products, to enable them to live longer and healthier lives.”<\/p>\n

Joseph Magero, Chair of the Campaign for Safer Alternatives and holder of a Global Tobacco Harm Reduction Scholarship<\/b>, noted: “Society’s relationship with tobacco and nicotine is changing due to developments in technology, such as vapes and other safer nicotine products. The Campaign for Safer Alternatives has formally launched this week to ensure more people across East Africa receive accurate information on alternatives to smoking. By arming people with information, we can finally begin to curb the tobacco epidemic.”<\/p>\n

The No Fire, No Smoke \u2013 Global State of Tobacco Harm Reduction 2018<\/i> report and this press release are published by Knowledge\u2219Action\u2219Change<\/a>, a private sector public health agency based in the United Kingdom.<\/p>\n

i <\/sup>\u00a0The graphic entitled African region \u2013 increasing daily tobacco prevalence trends <\/i>can be downloaded and reproduced with credit to GSTHR<\/b> at https:\/\/gsthr.org\/images\/charts\/chapter2\/2.5.jpg<\/a><\/u>
\nii<\/sup>\u00a0March 13-14, 2019, Golden Peacock Hotel, Lilongwe, Malawi. For further information about the event, contact Chimwemwe Ngoma, as above.
\niii<\/sup>\u00a0March 18, 2019, Hilton Garden Inn Hotel, Nairobi, Kenya. For further information about the event, contact Joseph Magero, as above.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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