Joseph Magero

The Harm of Standing Still: Africa’s Missed Opportunity on Tobacco Harm R …

Across Africa, tobacco control policy remains largely frozen in time. While science and technology have evolved, many governments continue to regulate all nicotine products as if they carry the same level of risk as …
Read More

Join Us

Vaping can save 200 million lives and flavours play a key role in helping smokers quit. However, policymakers want to limit or ban flavours, putting our effort to end smoking-related deaths in jeopardy.
Read More >>

Africa’s Smokers Are Changing – Policy Isn’t

As 2026 begins, a quiet shift is taking place across Africa. Adult smokers are changing how they consume nicotine, but policy has yet to catch up. From Nairobi to Johannesburg and from Lagos to …
Read More

Join Us

Vaping can save 200 million lives and flavours play a key role in helping smokers quit. However, policymakers want to limit or ban flavours, putting our effort to end smoking-related deaths in jeopardy.
Read More >>

Why COP11 is Africa’s Chance to Rethink Tobacco Control

In November this year, governments from across the world will gather in Geneva for COP11, the global meeting of the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC). For Africa, the stakes could not be higher. …
Read More

Join Us

Vaping can save 200 million lives and flavours play a key role in helping smokers quit. However, policymakers want to limit or ban flavours, putting our effort to end smoking-related deaths in jeopardy.
Read More >>

How Policymakers in Africa Risk Fueling Illicit Trade in Vapes

As governments across Africa scramble to regulate the fast-evolving landscape of nicotine consumption, one pressing threat looms large on the horizon: the rise of illicit trade in vaping products. While policymakers often act intending …
Read More

Join Us

Vaping can save 200 million lives and flavours play a key role in helping smokers quit. However, policymakers want to limit or ban flavours, putting our effort to end smoking-related deaths in jeopardy.
Read More >>

Breaking Free: How Africa Can Tackle Smoking with Innovation, Not Prohibiti …

It is 2025, and once again Africa has a unique opportunity to pivot toward innovation and adopt lessons from Sweden’s successful cessation model to combat its smoking epidemic. Sweden recently became the first smoke-free …
Read More

Join Us

Vaping can save 200 million lives and flavours play a key role in helping smokers quit. However, policymakers want to limit or ban flavours, putting our effort to end smoking-related deaths in jeopardy.
Read More >>

Africa’s Battle with Tobacco Smoking: Can Prohibition Derail the 2025 Goa …

Africa faces a critical juncture in its fight against tobacco smoking as the 2025 global target of a 30% relative reduction in tobacco use looms. While the continent has made strides in implementing tobacco …
Read More

Join Us

Vaping can save 200 million lives and flavours play a key role in helping smokers quit. However, policymakers want to limit or ban flavours, putting our effort to end smoking-related deaths in jeopardy.
Read More >>

A Smoke-Free Zambia: Lessons from Sweden’s Tobacco Harm Reduction Suc …

As Zambia contemplates the future of smoking cessation and tobacco control with the proposed bill, the Swedish model serves as a powerful example of how harm reduction can be leveraged to achieve lasting health …
Read More

Join Us

Vaping can save 200 million lives and flavours play a key role in helping smokers quit. However, policymakers want to limit or ban flavours, putting our effort to end smoking-related deaths in jeopardy.
Read More >>

Why Kenya’s Senate Should Reconsider the Proposed Tobacco Control Bil …

The proposals relating to vapes and oral nicotine pouches will, if passed into law, have severe unintended consequences that will unnecessarily put the lives of thousands of Kenyans at risk. Smokers will be denied …
Read More

Join Us

Vaping can save 200 million lives and flavours play a key role in helping smokers quit. However, policymakers want to limit or ban flavours, putting our effort to end smoking-related deaths in jeopardy.
Read More >>
en_GBEN_GB
en_EUEU fr_BEFR_BE nl_BENL_BE cs_CZCS nl_NLNL_NL en_USEN fr_FRFR it_ITIT pl_PLPL pt_PTPT es_ESES sv_SESV de_ATDE_AU de_DE_formalDE_DE da_DKDA elEL fiFI ro_RORO en_GBEN_GB

Join #BVBS

Sign Up
I've Already Signed Up
Not Today