Mauritius is first in Africa to adopt WHO full-scale tobacco control measures
The African region is expected to be home to more than 50 million smokers by 2025 unless more is done urgently to halt the tobacco epidemic
Mauritius has become the first African country to fully implement the entire World Health Organization’s (WHO) package of tobacco control measures aimed at reducing tobacco use and reducing related deaths. The WHO tobacco control package, called MPOWER Package, is a set of six measures to help countries monitor tobacco use…