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…
-
-
Smoking around others? Thank you for Killing us!!!
‘This is very unbelievable, how can a mother be smoking near her children?’ thought Kahill as she walked passed her neighbour’s compound. She shaked her head and walked by, tradition dedicates never to interfere in other people’s business. But Kahill was not the kind to keep quiet, she had been nursing a sick nephew suffering from cancer and everytime she saw him suffering she thought of all the people who just smoke for themselves without any consideration of other people around them. With that pain and the young children not older than 7 and 10 years playing around their mother, who was busy enjoying her cigarettes made her heart hurt.…
