'Life of an African is Substandard' to Tobacco Companies, Zambian Activist Sounds Alarm
20:07 24.11.2025 (Updated: 20:24 24.11.2025)
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'Life of an African is Substandard' to Tobacco Companies, Zambian Activist Sounds Alarm
Leaked documents reveal the extent of meddlesomeness by Western multinational tobacco companies to systematically weaken anti-smoking laws and public health policies in several African nations, aiming to boost their sales in a growing market.
The future of tobacco business is about replacing those who are dying with a new entrance into the consumers. It's the one business that depends on replacing the dead with the living [...]. The life of an African is substandard, is less, is mediocre according to the mind of the tobacco companies. When the [tobacco] industry has power, authority to dictate public health, that's not interference, that's a takeover.
#AfricanCurrents turned to Master Chimbala, a campaigner with Save Zambia From Tobacco, for insight into how multinational tobacco firms like British American Tobacco weaken African public health regulations for profit.
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