Tobacco firms using front groups to hold on

Kevin Kinyua,  a businessman selling tobacco(Tumbaku) at Mtito Andei Market which is near Tsavo west national park in Mtito Andei in Makueni county. [David Gichuru, Standard]

The tobacco epidemic is one of the biggest public health threats the world has ever faced, killing more than 8 million people a year around the world.

More than 7 million of those deaths are the result of direct tobacco use while around 1.2 million are the result of non-smokers being exposed to second-hand smoke.