VISA organised a one-day workshop for women leaders with a view to empowering them on tobacco-related issues and mobilising support for future interventions at community level. The workshop was held on Tuesday 6 December, 2022 at the Gold Crest Hotel, Quatre Bornes. It brought together 45 female participants from Ministries, para-statal bodies and non-government organizations.…
The increased global attention on addressing plastics pollution is an opportunity to tackle tobacco’s plastics, but this is just one part of a larger chain of environmental harms. Tobacco post-consumer waste comprises of the plastic packaging and the cigarette filter, both are known to be single use plastics. Tobacco’s plastic packaging can be differentiated from…
The Ministry of Health and Wellness published the new Public Health (Restriction on Tobacco Products) Regulations 2022, following the Cabinet decision taken on Friday the 20th of May 2022. The new Regulations provide for the introduction of plain packaging for tobacco products as well as new requirements in terms of labelling, package design, size and…
The second qualitative study looked at the operation of waterpipe smoking outlets and the illegal sale of non-conventional tobacco products such as waterpipe tobacco, electronic cigarettes including shisha pens and heated tobacco products. In Mauritius, the importation and sale of tobacco products for use in waterpipes is banned, although waterpipe use is allowed in certain…
Two studies were carried out in 2021 by the non-government association VISA, the University of Mauritius and the World Health Organization. The first study looked at whether nightclubs in Mauritius were in conformity with the ban on smoking in public places as required by the Public Health (Restrictions on Tobacco Products) Regulations of 2008. It…
We need food, not tobacco – focus of World No Tobacco Day 2023 A global food crisis is growing fueled by conflict, climate change, impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic as well as the ripple effects of the war in Ukraine driving rising prices of food, fuel and fertilizer. Tobacco growing and production lead to long…
The tobacco industry continues to market heated tobacco products (HTPs) as tools to help smokers switch from cigarettes to “safer” alternatives or to quit using nicotine entirely. However, there is no conclusive, unbiased evidence to show that HTPs are safer than combustible cigarettes, nor have HTPs been clearly linked to quitting. And now, new research…
