ASIEH NAMDAR, CNN ANCHOR: Anti-smoking ads are not likely to show up in Africa. Uganda's WBS reports a group of east African ministers has rejected plans for an anti-smoking campaign.</s>YUSUF KALYANGO JR., WBS CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): The east African ministers have created an industry of dismissed possibilities of their government to ban cigarette advertising, or the campaign cigarette smoking. This position taken by</s>NGBANI SHABANJI, BRITISH AMERICAN TOBACCO: We are quite aware of that allegation and it is contrary to our beliefs and practice. We are firmly in support of smoking by adults, we target only adults, and that's our market.</s>KALYANGO: Scientists and medical workers protest that along with the generation of tobacco revenue and the pleasures of cigarette smoking comes the risks of serious diseases such as lung cancer, respiratory disease and heart disease.</s>VICKIE CURTIS, HEALTH CONSULTANT: There are other diseases which are increased in smokers, particularly some of the lung diseases such as chronic bronchitis and emphysema. Cigarette smoking is a very important risk factor and you really are going to be increasing your risk quite substantially for emphysema if you do smoke cigarettes.</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE (through translator): It relaxes my mind. With all these problems I have, actually the entire family are great smokers.</s>KALYANGO: Tobacco companies in Uganda are sure that British American Tobacco is the leading community supporting private company, mainly in public institutions, schools, hospitals and governments. I am Yusuf Kalyango Jr. from WBS Television reporting for CNN WORLD REPORT.
East African Ministers Reject Plans For Anti-Smoking Campaign