Gambia Implements Pictorilal Heath Warnings on Cigarette Packs

As part of the efforts to control the demand and supply of Tobacco and its related products in the country, the Tobacco control Act has ban the Cigarette packs without pictorial health warnings effective September 6 2021. Earlier today, the Joint Operation to Monitor the enforcement of this pictorial health warnings on cigarette Packs kicks start today in the capital city of Banjul were business that imports Cigarettes are based. The purpose of this monitoring exercise is to have a first hand information on their stock level for the old packs that are yet to be in the market, and the compliance of the new pictorial health warnings that started this month.