‘Caribbean can become smoke free zone’ – Dr. James Hospedales

By Michelle Nurse Last updated Nov 14, 2014

TOBACCO TALK: Pan American Health Organisation (PAHO) representative Edwin Bolastie, right, speaks with Nicole Jordan Coombs, centre, general manager of the Trinidad and Tobago Coalition for Tobacco Control (TTCTC), and, left, director of Healthy Caribbean Coalition (HCC) Dr Victor Coombs, during yesterday’s first planning meeting for the establishment of the TTCTC, led by the T&T Cancer Society, at the National Library and Information System Authority (NALIS), Hart and Abercromby streets, Port of Spain. —Photo by ANISTO ALVES bia Trinidad Express — **TOBACCO TALK**: Pan American Health Organisation (PAHO) representative Edwin Bolastie, right, speaks with Nicole Jordan Coombs, centre, General Manager of the Trinidad and Tobago Coalition for Tobacco Control (TTCTC), and, left, Director of Healthy Caribbean Coalition (HCC) Dr. Victor Coombs, during yesterday’s first planning meeting for the establishment of the TTCTC, led by the T&T Cancer Society, at the National Library and Information System Authority (NALIS), Hart and Abercromby Streets, Port of Spain. —Photo by ANISTO ALVES via Trinidad Express

The Caribbean could become one of the world’s largest tobacco-restricted zones in the next decade.

This from Dr James Hospedales, Executive Director at the Caribbean Public Health Agency (CARPHA), at yesterday’s establishment of the Trinidad and Tobago Coalition for Tobacco Control (TTCTC) at the National Library and Information System Authority (NALIS) in Port of Spain.

You may be interested in...

Small island States to accelerate action on preventable…

Jan 19, 2023

CARICOM, partners forging a pathway to better health

Sep 28, 2022

Regional environmental negotiators in preparations for COP15

Sep 22, 2022

CARPHA Spotlights Digital Health at its First Hybrid…

Sep 12, 2022

The coalition will be led by the Trinidad and Tobago Cancer Society (TTCS).

Hospedales said tobacco products and smoking continue to be one of the top contributors to non-communicable diseases in the Caribbean and, in T&T, the numbers are still high for men, women and teenagers who indulge in the habit.