The Tongan Ministry of Health launched a 6 weeks campaign called Tuku Ifi Leva (Quit Smoking Now) starting on 5 October 2017. The graphic campaign showing the risks of tobacco use including cancers and other diseases will run on TV, radio, press, as well as Facebook.

The website of the campaign is available at: www.tapuifitonga.com.

The campaign is also offering advice and expert support to smokers willing to quit through a newly established toll-free quitline.

The Kenya Revenue Authority (KRA), in reference to the Excise Duty Act 2016 and the “Excise Duty (Excisable Goods Management System) Regulations, 2017”, calls upon manufacturers, importers, distributors and retailers of any type of tobacco product to register with KRA and apply for excise stamps to affix on all tobacco products packages, including electronic cigarettes and cartridges, cigars, cigarillos, chewing tobacco, shisha and other manufactured tobacco and tobacco substitutes.

After seven years of planning and intense work of the Ministry of Health, the National Assembly of Benin has unanimously adopted, on 14 September 2017, a new tobacco control law that will regulate production, processing, packaging, sale and use of all tobacco products and its derivatives.