No To Tobacco Consumption

Tobacco use is one of the leading preventable causes of death, killing more than 7 million people every year. Aside death, tobacco use also burdens global economy with estimated 1.4 USD trillion in healthcare cost and lost productivity each year. Socially, cigarette smoking results in internal emotional instability which can cause a strain in relationships between the smokers and others. The economic, social and health impacts of smoking cannot be underscored. Although people smoke to socialize or feel among, to boost their ego, or cover up their inferiority complex, every stick they smoke cuts 5 minutes of their lives.

In supplementation of the tobacco control measures such as heavy taxes, smoke-free policies, bans among others put in place by the bodies, and as part of Value Health Africa’s strategic plan we distributed over 150 stickers and 10 posters within the Bamenda II municipality during the 2020 World No Tobacco Day which was celebrated under the theme “Protecting youth from industry manipulation and preventing them from tobacco and nicotine use”. From our activities, over 500 youths became conscious of the health hazards involved in tobacco use, new manipulation tactics of tobacco manufacturing companies, and more than twenty-one youths contemplated quitting smoking. This is within our NCD pillar under the sticker campaign project. We aim to develop 10,000 stickers and distribute them within 30 communities in the next five years.