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World No Tobacco Day: WHO Advocates Levies, Says Crop Threat To Environment

by Idonosan Debe
May 31, 2022
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The World Health Organisation (WHO) has called on African Governments to impose environmental tax levies on tobacco across the value and supply chains, including production, processing, distribution, sales, consumption, and waste management.

The Regional Director for Africa, Dr. Matshidiso Moeti, made the call on Monday in a message to commemorate the 2022 World No Tobacco Day which is always celebrated on May 31 every year.

Moeti said the day was to raise awareness of the negative health, social, economic, and environmental impacts of tobacco production and use.

She said the year’s theme, “Tobacco: Threat to our environment”, aimed to highlight the environmental impact of the entire tobacco cycle, from cultivation, production, and distribution, to the toxic waste it generates.

Moeti advised countries to accelerate the implementation of the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control, which provides the necessary guidance to advance the creation of smoke-free environments.

According to her, the framework would create programmes to support tobacco users to quit and support for the application of excise tax and other financial countermeasures.

Moeti said despite 24 African countries instituting bans on smoking in public places, and 35 banning tobacco advertising, promotion, and sponsorship, our estimates are that one in every 10 African adolescents use tobacco.

She said that the emergence of new products, such as electronic nicotine and tobacco products, are also proving attractive to youths, compounding the concerns.

“With 44 of WHO African Region’s 47 countries having ratified the WHO FCTC, this commits them to adopt effective and evidence-based measures to curb tobacco consumption.

“The need to address related environmental damage has seen WHO redouble its efforts to counter the overall threat,’’ Moeti said.

She said the environmental impacts of tobacco farming included massive use of water, which was a scarce resource across most of the continent, along with large-scale deforestation and contamination of the air and water systems.

According to her, land used to grow tobacco could also be used much more efficiently, especially in countries grappling with food insecurity.

“To help counter the threat, WHO has joined hands with the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations and the Kenyan government to create the Tobacco-Free Farms project.

“Launched in March, the project supports farms to switch from tobacco to alternative food crops that will help feed communities, rather than harm their health.

“The UN agencies and the Kenyan government provide training, inputs such as seeds and fertilizer, and a ready market for their harvest through the World Food Programme’s local procurement initiatives,’’ Moeti said.

She said that so far, 330 Kenyan farmers had switched to growing beans, with the first harvest yielding more than 200 metric tons.

“The second season, which has just begun, is now reaching more than another 1000 farmers.

“This is extremely encouraging for our plans to roll this programme out to other tobacco-growing countries on the continent,’’ Moeti said.

According to her, this is the kind of hard evidence that is essential to change the mindsets of farmers, and governments, who believe that tobacco is a cash crop with the potential to generate economic growth.

She said in Malawi, for example, tobacco accounted for about half of all exports.

The comparative number for Zimbabwe is 13 percent and six percent and three percent for Mozambique and Tanzania respectively.

“What is less accepted is that these are unfortunately short-term gains that are eclipsed by the long-term consequences of increased food insecurity.

“Tobacco-related illness in the African Region accounts for 3.5 percent of annual total health expenditure.

“While tobacco leaf production is decreasing globally, it is increasing in the WHO African Region, which now produces about 12 percent of all tobacco leaf internationally.”

She said that tobacco growing was a significant driver of deforestation too, due to the large quantities of wood needed for curing.

She said that tobacco cultivation exposed farmers to several health risks, including “green tobacco sickness”, which was caused by nicotine absorbed through the skin during the handling of wet tobacco leaves.

“Cigarette butts litter pavements, parks, and beaches finding their way into waterways and leaching harmful chemicals that poison animals and aquatic life and children,’’ she said.

According to her, reducing tobacco consumption is a key catalyst toward realising the health-related Sustainable Development Goals but, as the environmental evidence illustrates, the benefits go far beyond health.

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