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<\/a> Tobacco companies in the Middle East and Africa need to be slapped with more taxes, restrictions:<\/strong> The Middle East and Africa are two regions that are bucking the downward global trend on tobacco use, largely because governments aren\u2019t imposing high enough taxes take too-loose an approach to the regulation of tobacco products, Bloomberg\u2019s editorial board says<\/a>. Egypt alone has seen its smoker population nearly double since 2000, reaching around 14.4 mn today.<\/strong> \u201cSmoking rates are rising fastest in low- and middle-income countries in these regions, where control measures are relatively weak and tobacco is marketed mainly to men. To reverse this, governments need to more firmly confront the tobacco industry\u2019s efforts to recruit the next generation of smokers.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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