2021-12-15-世界卫生组织-Tobacco_Burundi_2021_country_profile_10页_335kb

Burundi is a low-income country with 11.89 million people that signed and ratified the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control in 2003 and 2005, respectively.

Tobacco use prevalence is high: in adults, male smoking rates are around 13.7%, female around 5.4%, based on surveys from 2016-2017. Among adolescents, rates are 20.7% for males and 16.8% for females, from an older survey in 2008.

The national tobacco control program has 13 staff and set objectives. However, there have been no nationally representative surveys in the past five years, with data only available up to 2016 for adults and 2008 for adolescents.

MPOWER compliance is moderate: Burundi has complete smoke-free laws and moderate health warnings on cigarette packages covering 50% of principal display areas. However, monitoring lacks recent youth data, cessation programs are limited and not fully cost-covered, and there were no anti-tobacco mass media campaigns between July 2018 and June 2020.

Tobacco advertising bans are in place for TV, radio, print media, and various forms of promotion, but subnational powers are not restricted. Taxation is high, with 37.25% total taxation on cigarettes, but affordability is low; cigarettes cost more than 39.62% of GDP per capita to purchase, with trends showing decreasing affordability since 2010. No earmarked taxes for health, and no recent enforcement funds reported.

Treatment for tobacco dependence is available but not fully supported by health insurance, and quit lines are not accessible.