Daily Monitor Monday May 10 2021 Summary Regardless, just as the Africa Tobacco Industry Monitoring Report of September 2020 by E Wanyonyi, M Talibita, M Kirigwajo and T Rusoke clearly put it, unless there is a sustainable intervention, smoking prevalence is predicted to increase significantly in Sub-Saharan Africa and that this situation is likely to increase the growing burden of non-communicable diseases in the region. Advertisement July 1 is said to be the date when the Tobacco Control (Amendment) Act will come into force seeking to impose an export levy of $0.8 per kilogramme on leaf tobacco exported out of the country as passed on May 3.