Expulsion Of Lufwanyama Boarding School Pupils Filmed Smoking Blamed On Tobacco Companies

Tobacco Free Association of Zambia (TOFAZA) has blamed the expulsion of Lufwanyama Boarding School pupils who were video-filming themselves smoking, on the tobacco companies that are promoting their products around education facilities throughout the country.

Association Executive Director Brenda Chitindi, says School children that are being targeted by the tobacco companies’ products are the future of Zambia and their families have great hope in them having fruitful lives through education.

Ms. Chitindi, who is also a Member of the Global Alliance for Tobacco Control – Policy Committee, states that the Association has been advocating for tobacco control and calling up on government to pass the Tobacco Control Bill to protect the Zambian children and the adult population from the harms of tobacco consumption.

She says without passing the Tobacco Control Bill, Zambia will continue losing lives and children’s future messed up because of tobacco industry which is marketing tobacco products attracting children of all ages.

Recently, Lufwanyama Mayor Annie Kalamatila confirmed the expulsion of the pupils, stating that the smoking incident happened in July this year.