Uganda became a part of the World Health Organization (WHO) Frame Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC) in June 2007 signed a treaty that makes the country legally obligated to implement the treaty in good faith. This treaty motivated the drafting of the Tobacco control bill 2014 that aims to protect Ugandans’ health from tobacco caused problems and diseases. The bill which has struck in the parliamentary health committee for now a year (reason that was given recently was because the health committee lawyer was sick) has faced many Tobacco industry (TI) interference and this is not acceptable. According to the preamble of the FCTC, it instructs parties to be “alert…
