Members of parliament and civil society are in procession preparation to jubilate the assent on the Tobacco control bill 2014. This as reports show that the president ascented to the ACT which bans smoking in public and selling one stick of cigarette to smokers. The shadow Minister for Health Dr. Micheal Lulume Bayiga said […]
Members of Parliament are divided over a clause in the Tobacco control bill 2014 seeking to force a smoker to buy a whole packet of cigarette as a deterrent for youth not to smoke. A number of MPS while at a meeting organized by Uganda National Health Users’/Consumers’ Organization at Serena Hotel in Kampala some say they want a […]
The long awaited Tobacco Control Bill, 2014 has been tabled before Parliament for the second reading giving powers to Ministry of health to be responsible for the implementation of the law. Chairperson of health Committee Medard Bitekyerenzo while presenting the report to Parliament said as was earlier proposed that the office of the Prime Minister […]