Africa: Tobacco use bad for economies

The World Health Organisation (WHO) launched this year's campaign for World No Tobacco Day with the slogan: 'Tobacco and Poverty: a vicious circle', stressing the enormous economic costs of tobacco use and cultivation to families, communities and countries. The slogan 'a vicious circle' explains the inextricable link that exists between tobacco and poverty, and how the use of tobacco, especially by poorer people who consume this product the most, can cause harmful consequences to their already precarious economies and income.