Africa-Press – Cape verde. The World Health Organization (WHO) highlighted Cabo Verde as an example in adopting exemplary policies and initiatives aimed at combating smoking and reducing tobacco consumption.
The distinction appears in the report on the “World Tobacco Epidemic – Protecting people from tobacco smoke”, released by the organization, which evaluated public anti-smoking measures in 2022, in 195 countries, with Cabo Verde occupying the third position among Portuguese-speaking countries.
In this group of countries (with the exception of Portugal), details the same source, Brazil is in the first position with a higher level of taxation (80.2%), followed by Equatorial Guinea (33.2%), Cabo Verde (30.2%), São Tomé and Príncipe (29.9%), Mozambique (23.9%), Angola (18%) and Guinea-Bissau (5.7%).
Overall, the WHO emphasises that, “while progress has been steady since 2007”, its pace has slowed since 2018 and that as of 2020, five low- and middle-income countries that previously had no good practice measures in place (Cabo Verde, Myanmar, Nicaragua, Sudan and Zambia) have reached the highest level on one or more measures.
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