{"id":827,"date":"2013-06-27T15:29:20","date_gmt":"2013-06-27T15:29:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/tc\/?p=827"},"modified":"2013-06-28T03:18:32","modified_gmt":"2013-06-28T03:18:32","slug":"congo-denouncing-the-influence-of-the-tobacco-industry-on-government-policy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/tc\/2013\/06\/27\/congo-denouncing-the-influence-of-the-tobacco-industry-on-government-policy\/","title":{"rendered":"Congo World No Tobacco Day: Denouncing the influence of the tobacco industry on government policy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Photo and report credit: C\u00e9lestin ZOUMA, Coordonateur du R\u00e9seau des ONG Congolaises de lutte antitabac ROCAT<!--?xml:namespace prefix = \"o\" ns = \"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office\" \/--><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The tobacco control group ROCAT in partnership with the Ministry of Health and Population and WHO Country celebrated World No Tobacco Day 2013 with a series of events including a press Conference by the Minister of Health briefing, outreach campaigns, and TV and radio<br \/>\ncoverage, which took place from 30 to 31 May 2013A Brazzaville.<\/p>\n<p>In a series of media interviews, the coordinator of ROCAT Celestin Zouma denounced the influence of the tobacco industry on government policy in health, and called for strict enforcement.<\/p>\n<p>Outreach activities included public awareness campaigns of the dangers of smoking in public and private places, schools and police stations and police stations in the capital city.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/tc\/files\/2013\/06\/Congo-pic-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-828\" alt=\"Congo pic 1\" src=\"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/tc\/files\/2013\/06\/Congo-pic-1-300x199.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/tc\/files\/2013\/06\/Congo-pic-1-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/tc\/files\/2013\/06\/Congo-pic-1.jpg 587w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-829\" alt=\"Congo pic 2\" src=\"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/tc\/files\/2013\/06\/Congo-pic-2-300x171.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"171\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/tc\/files\/2013\/06\/Congo-pic-2-300x171.jpg 300w, https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/tc\/files\/2013\/06\/Congo-pic-2.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-830\" alt=\"congo pic 3\" src=\"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/tc\/files\/2013\/06\/congo-pic-3-300x167.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"167\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/tc\/files\/2013\/06\/congo-pic-3-300x167.jpg 300w, https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/tc\/files\/2013\/06\/congo-pic-3.jpg 505w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><!--TrendMD v2.4.8--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Photo and report credit: C\u00e9lestin ZOUMA, Coordonateur du R\u00e9seau des ONG Congolaises de lutte antitabac ROCAT &nbsp; The tobacco control group ROCAT in partnership with the Ministry of Health and Population and WHO Country celebrated World No Tobacco Day 2013 with a series of events including a press Conference by the Minister of Health briefing, [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"btn btn-secondary understrap-read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/tc\/2013\/06\/27\/congo-denouncing-the-influence-of-the-tobacco-industry-on-government-policy\/\">Read More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2155],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-827","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-world-no-tobacco-day"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/tc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/827","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/tc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/tc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/tc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/tc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=827"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/tc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/827\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/tc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/tc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/tc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}