ACS report Rebutting the tobacco industry, winning smokefree air presented in Dar es Salaam

This article from Reuters mentions the ACS report presented at the conference. Global Voices, the 2009 status report  is available on the Global Smokefree Partnership's site. Titled Rebutting the tobacco industry, Winning Smokefree Air it is summarized on e-health. Here is the official press release.

More than half the continent will double its tobacco use within 12 years if current trends continue, the American Cancer Society (ACS) said in a report which found that 90 percent of people living there have no protection from secondhand smoke.

Some African countries have introduced smoking bans but most have not, and smoke-free public areas are rare.

"For the first time in history, we have the tools in hand to prevent a pandemic," Otis W. Brawley, the ACS's chief medical officer, said in a statement with the report, which was presented at a cancer conference in Tanzania.