Complements ongoing tobacco control efforts to accelerate quitting and switching to tobacco harm reduction products while understanding the individual smoker
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Aims to diversify tobacco-dependent economies, ensuring that smallholder farmers impacted by the declining demand for tobacco are supported to find sustainable alternative livelihoods
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Focuses on delivering change across the entire global tobacco industry and nicotine ecosystem
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Smoking is the world’s leading cause of preventable death
There are 7.2 million smoking-related deaths annually, killing more people than hiv/aids, malaria & tuberculosis combined.2
1. GBD 2015 Tobacco Collaborators. Smoking prevalence and attributable disease burden in 195 countries and territories, 1990–2015: a systematic analysis from the Global Burden of Disease Study 2015. Lancet.
2. World Health Organization. WHO Report on the Global Tobacco Epidemic, 2017
3. American Cancer Society. Tobacco: True Cost of Smoking
4. Banks E, et al. Tobacco smoking and all-cause mortality in a large Australian cohort study: findings from a mature epidemic with current low smoking prevalence. BMC Med, 2015
5. World Health Organization. Tobacco Fact Sheet. 2017
6. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Quitting smoking among adults – United States, 2001–2010. Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report. 2011
Without alternatives provided, smoking rates in #SouthAfrica remain stubbornly high compared to other regions. Hear more about the #StateOfSmoking and the struggles of smokers here: http://bit.ly/2BROMqS
Tomorrow we kick off the second annual #ATISummit2019 where thought leaders from international delegations, local government and private & farming sectors will convene as part of the ATI’s commitment to economic diversification in #Malawi. To learn more: http://bit.ly/2OamVYm
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