Our Vision
Our vision is a smoke-free Africa, which we believe is achievable through cessation and harm reduction.
Our Mission
The broader aim of Campaign for Safer Alternatives is to encourage complete cessation of tobacco smoking in Africa by providing information and support to help smokers who wish to quit.
Our mission is to advocate for a smoke free Africa by ensuring the availability of a variety of effective, affordable, safer alternatives to cigarette smoking by increasing public awareness and education, advocating for responsible legislative and regulatory policy designed to improve public health, and to promote the benefits of reduced harm alternatives.
We aim to promote the adoption of proven solutions that are most effective at reducing tobacco use and save the most lives. We promote innovative solutions for smoking cessation. While remaining committed to and supporting tobacco control efforts in Africa, especially Article 14 of FCTC, our organization serves as a platform for advocating and promoting all innovative solutions for ending smoking whether counseling, NRTs, or harm reduction.
We strengthen coordination and collaboration among consumer organizations and partners for effective and sustained progress in tobacco harm reduction in Africa, through strategic communications and advocacy campaigns.
OUR MANIFESTO
- Access to harm reduction, including tobacco harm reduction, must be recognized as a human right.
- Consumers of safer nicotine products in Africa must be recognized as essential stakeholders in discussions of policy.
- Regulation for safer nicotine products must reflect the risks relative to the risks from smoking.
- Regulators must recognize that having a wide choice of products and flavors is key to the success of safer nicotine products in enabling people to stop smoking.
- Regulators in Africa must consider the harm to adults when considering measures intended to protect youth
- Tax policy must take into account that high taxation of safer nicotine products deters smokers from switching.