New Public Health Policy Study Findings Recently Were Reported by Researchers at University of Ottawa (Consequences of policy incoherence: how Zambia’s post-FCTC investment policy stimulated tobacco production)

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2019 SEP 11 (NewsRx) -- By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Politics, Law & Government Daily -- Current study results on Public Health - Public Health Policy have been published. According to news reporting originating in Ottawa, Canada, by NewsRx journalists, research stated, “Zambia, a tobacco-growing country, provides manufacturing incentives to attract foreign and domestic investment. In an earlier study, we cautioned that these incentives could lead to local tobacco manufacturing, undermining its domestic tobacco control efforts.”

The news reporters obtained a quote from the research from the University of Ottawa, “In 2018, as part of our continuing research program, we conducted key informant interviews (n = 15) and document analyses. Our early caution proved correct. In 2018, taking advantage of tax incentives, British American Tobacco Zambia and Roland Imperial Tobacco opened new cigarette-manufacturing facilities in the Lusaka Multi-Facility Economic Zone. They report capability of producing 25 million cigarettes daily, between 3 and 5 million of which is intended for the domestic market. Zambia’s tax incentives for cigarette manufacturing are likely to increase domestic consumption.”

According to the news reporters, the research concluded: “The 170 new jobs created in the two plants pale when considering long-term health impacts and lost economic productivity of an increase in supply of locally produced cigarette brands.”

For more information on this research see: Consequences of policy incoherence: how Zambia’s post-FCTC investment policy stimulated tobacco production. Journal of Public Health Policy, 2019;40(3):286-291. Journal of Public Health Policy can be contacted at: Palgrave Macmillan Ltd, Brunel Rd Bldg, Houndmills, Basingstoke RG21 6XS, Hants, England.

Our news correspondents report that additional information may be obtained by contacting R. Labonte, University of Ottawa, School of Epidemiology and Public Health, 600 Peter Morand Crescent, Ottawa, On K1G 5Z, Canada. Additional authors for this research include R. Lencucha, F. Goma, R. Zulu and J. Drope.

The direct object identifier (DOI) for that additional information is: https://doi.org/10.1057/s41271-019-00171-8. This DOI is a link to an online electronic document that is either free or for purchase, and can be your direct source for a journal article and its citation.