Dar es Salaam, May 4 -- JIM Rohn, an American entrepreneur and one of the most influential personal development thinkers of the 20th century, often used simple examples to explain complex truths.

He once observed that an apple a day makes you healthy, but eating only apples every day is a problem.

It is a simple idea, but one with profound implications for public policy, especially in sectors where truth is not singular, but contested.

In policy, as in life, balance matters. For Tanzania, that lesson is becoming increasingly urgent, not only in what we negotiate globally, but in how we show up to negotiate.

Nowhere is this clearer than in international forums such as the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC) Conference of...