FORGOT YOUR DETAILS?

  • Home
  • TOBACCO SMOKE-FREE CITIES

TOBACCO SMOKE-FREE CITIES

In 2016, Cape Verde began writing a new page in the history of its tobacco control programme. More consistent, more systematic and aligned with the Global and Regional Strategy of the World Health Organisation Framework Convention on Tobacco Control and the Strategic Plan for Sustainable Development (PEDS 2017 - 2021) of the Government of Cape Verde for the 9th legislature.

The Support Unit for the Implementation of Healthy Cities in Cape Verde is a privileged partner for the promotion and implementation of the programme in Cape Verde.

M POWER A PLAN TO REVERSE THE TOBACCO EPIDEMIC

The MPOWER package is a WHO action plan that encourages policy makers, together with society, including civil society, health service providers and other stakeholders, to design a tobacco-free world. In addition, the plan of measures provides the necessary tools to create a world that reduces tobacco consumption by promoting a legal and socio-economic environment that fosters life and smoke-free cities.

Tobacco Control Programme

In 2016, Cape Verde began writing a new page in the history of its tobacco control programme. More consistent, more systematic and aligned with the Global and Regional Strategy of the World Health Organisation Framework Convention on Tobacco Control and the Strategic Plan for Sustainable Development (PEDS 2017 - 2021) of the Government of Cape Verde for the 9th legislature.

In recent years, the country has achieved high impact results in relation to Tobacco Control. In particular, the fight for the adequacy of national fiscal policy on tobacco products, in accordance with the guidelines of Article 6 of the Framework Convention and the recommendations of the ECOWAS Council of Ministers of December 2017. Cape Verde also acceded to the Protocol on the Elimination of Illicit Trade in Tobacco Products, which entered into force in October 2018, as an international treaty that complements and expands Article 15 of the Framework Convention. In this regard, in fulfilling the General Obligations of Article 5 of the Convention (established its National Mechanism for Multisectoral Coordination for the Implementation of the Convention, developed its Legislative Draft that regulates the implementation of the framework Convention and developed its first.

The country has made a major qualitative leap towards the materialization of the vision of this Strategic Plan, which foresees the elimination of the tobacco epidemic in the medium term, according to WHO criteria. These results demonstrate the Government of Cape Verde's strong commitment to tobacco control, as Cape Verde becomes a reference country at the African Region level in the implementation of the Framework Convention.

Cape Verde, having been selected by the WHO Secretariat for Tobacco Control as one of the 15 partner countries of the FCTC 2030 Project (five in the WHO African Region), was a recognition of the Government's motivation and commitment; but it is also a great opportunity for the country to consolidate its Tobacco Control Programme and its essential tools for implementing the Convention. However, despite the results already achieved, the country remains heavily dependent on international assistance, both in technical and financial terms.

The country and its actors and officials will therefore need to make efforts to improve its surveillance system, mobilize and empower civil society, strengthen partnerships and mobilize internal and external resources, monitor the tobacco industry's activity, including advertising and social responsibility activities and other forms of interference, support those who wish to stop using tobacco, protect populations from secondhand smoke and minors from contact with tobacco products, and finally, implement the Legislative Project developed and the Multi-sectoral Strategic Plan under consideration.

The National Commission for the Implementation of the Cape Verde Framework Convention thus has, within the current framework, the necessary favourable environment to conduct the process of implementing this plan, so that it can fulfil its mission of "establishing a national dynamic of intervention based on multidisciplinarity, multi-sectorality and transversality, capable of leveraging the mobilisation and participation of actors, sectors and communities at all levels, with a view to controlling smoking and its devastating consequences on people's health, the environment and the economy". In this way, the implementation of the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control will be effective and contribute to the achievement of the goals set out in the national and global agendas.

The Support Unit for the Implementation of Healthy Cities in Cape Verde is a strategic partner of the Programme in Cape Verde, embodied in the "smoke-free environments" axis. The aim of this regulation is to establish limitations on tobacco consumption in spaces intended for collective use in order to ensure the protection of exposure to environmental tobacco smoke, particularly in enclosed and semi-enclosed spaces and among vulnerable groups; the WHO (2019) estimates that it is the cause of death of about one million people each year, 165,000 of whom are children. It is hoped that with the passage of the law, this will be effectively achieved:

- Prohibition of smoking in all enclosed and semi-enclosed public spaces, workplaces, public or private, and public transport.

- Prohibition of smoking at less than three metres from the access to enclosed public spaces, at less than three metres around the perimeter of semi-enclosed public spaces as well as in Parks and Natural Parks.

- No smoking inside private vehicles when carrying children up to 16 years of age.

- Restriction of smoking in certain public places, in the private domain, perimeter of their owners, banning smoking by placing a sign.

M monitor

Monitoring tobacco use

Cross-Activity M1

Obtain nationally representative and population-based periodic data on key indicators of youth and adult tobacco consumption.

P protect

Protecting the population from tobacco smoke

Intervention P1

Promote and enforce laws on 100% smoke-free environments in healthcare and educational establishments, as well as in all enclosed public places, including workplaces, restaurants and bars.

O offer

Offering smoking cessation aid

Intervention O1

Strengthen health systems to facilitate cessation counselling in primary health care. Support the establishment of telephone helplines to help with termination and other community initiatives, together with easily accessible and low-cost pharmacological treatment where appropriate.

W warn

Warning about the dangers of tobacco

Intervention W1

Require effective warnings on the packaging.

Intervention W2

Carry out anti-smoking advertising.

Intervention W3

Get free media coverage of tobacco control activities.

E enforce

Enforcing bans on advertising, promotion and sponsorship

Intervention E1

Enact and enforce effective laws prohibiting any direct tobacco advertising, promotion and sponsorship.

Intervention E2

Promulgate and enforce effective laws prohibiting any type of tobacco advertising, promotion and sponsorship, even indirect ones.

R raise

Increase taxes on tobacco

Intervention R1

Increase tobacco taxation and ensure that taxes are adjusted regularly, in line with inflation rates, and increase faster than consumers' purchasing power.

Intervention R2

Strengthen the tax administration to reduce illicit trade in tobacco products.

ENVIAR MENSAGEM

Favor preencher o formulário abaixo!