A Cameroonian smoker
is on a tobacco row. Spending averagely 5000fcfa per month on tobacco products.
Which corresponds to 7,25% of the Guaranteed Minimum Wage(SMIG), as revealed by
the global Adult Tobacco Survey (GATS), survey realized in 2013 by the National
Institute for Statistics(NIS), with the support of the Ministry of Public
Health and WHO.
According to the conclusion of this research, the smoking phenomenon is
more visible amongs persons within 25-44 years old. Their expenses related to
cigarette purchase is more than 5000FCFA per smoker, meanwhile those between
the age group 15-24 years spend 4123FCFA to buy cigarettes.
Moreover, tobacco use of recent times is a poverty increasing factor within
families." if in a family one
person smokes, money that is destined for proteins, that is to say for fish and
meat, is being oriented towards cigarette purchase, and consequently, the
children do not go to school, blames attributed to lack of finance",
explained by Dr. Flore NDEMBIYEMBE, president of the Cameroon Coalition to
Counter Tobacco (C3T).