Abstract
This cross-sectional study examines age at smoking initiation, prevalence of cigarette use, and prevalence of exposure to smoking-related risk factors among youths in sub-Saharan Africa.
Highlights
The 2020 World No Tobacco Day campaign was focused on promoting measures to protect children and young people from exploitation by the tobacco industry
With increasing tobacco industry activity in this region, African countries are projected to progress to a tobacco epidemic by 2040.2 This study aimed to describe the prevalence of exposure to smoking-related risk factors, susceptibility to smoke, cigarette smoking, and age at smoking initiation among adolescents in 9 sub-Saharan African nations
Secondhand smoking exposure at home ranged from 16.0% in Tanzania to 33.8% in Gambia (Table 1)
Summary
The 2020 World No Tobacco Day campaign was focused on promoting measures to protect children and young people from exploitation by the tobacco industry. This comes as more than 40 million adolescents aged 13 to 15 years are reported to have already initiated tobacco use.[1]. The African continent has one of the lowest regional tobacco use rates and is generally considered to be at subepidemic levels, with lower smoking intensities compared with other parts of the world.[2] evidence points to increasingly aggressive tobacco industry marketing in
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