World No Tobacco Day: Call for strengthening restrictions on the tobacco industry and trade

Participants at a symposium held on Friday in Rabat, on the occasion of World No Tobacco Day (May 31), advocated for increased restrictions on the tobacco industry and trade in order to limit the spread of smoking among young people.At the opening of this two-day meeting, initiated by the Centre for Studies and Research on Drugs and the Environment (CERDE) under the theme "All against the tobacco industry", speakers, specialists, academics, civil society actors, teachers, and students called for the implementation of the law prohibiting smoking in public places, increasing the price of cigarettes to limit consumption, and banning the sale of tobacco products to children and adolescents.Raising awareness about the dangers of tobacco through regular actions, rather than seasonal campaigns with limited effect, mobilizing all means to reach the maximum number of social categories, particula…