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26MayMay 26, 2023

Misleading tobacco industry stealth advertising misrepresents Swedish e-cigarette model

With the absence of regulations in South Africa, e-cigarette use is increasing among youths, perpetuating nicotine addiction and leading some of them to start smoking traditional cigarettes. here have recently been misleading calls for South Africa to adopt the Swedish model of regulating e-cigarettes, a model positioned by tobacco-industry supported organisations as making alternative products widely available,...

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05MayMay 5, 2023

New smoking tax hitting South Africa next month

From 1 June 2023, nicotine-substitute solutions, including vaping products, will be included in the tax net with a flat excise duty rate of R2.90/ml. Excise duty on vaping tobacco products has been in the pipeline for a while – the tax was first announced in finance minister Enoch Godongwana’s 2022 budget speech. The South African Revenue...

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08MarMarch 8, 2023

New smoking and cannabis laws in the pipeline for South Africa this year

South Africa is set to see some major changes to tobacco, vape and cannabis smoking this year with a handful of new regulations in the pipeline. New bills relating to smoking form part of the 42 bills before Parliament, which include a mix of consequential, medium-level and minor legislation, said the Parliamentary Monitoring Group (PMG). The PMG...

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08MarMarch 8, 2023

Get ready to pay more for cigarettes and alcohol in South Africa

Finance minister Enoch Godongwana has announced that taxes on cigarettes and alcohol will be raised in 2023 – but lovers of sugary drinks will catch a break. Delivering his 2023 budget speech, the minister said that no major tax developments were being announced for 2023, at least on the budget’s revenue side. This was due to...

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26JanJanuary 26, 2023

What’s behind the Big Tobacco job cuts? A guide to SA’s illegal tobacco trade after COVID

British American Tobacco in South Africa (Batsa says 200 of its workers will be out of a job soon, but public health researchers argue they’re using misleading figures to explain why they’re downsizing. Batsa claims the illegal tobacco trade in South Africa makes up 70% of the market. The figure is a misquote...

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11JanJanuary 11, 2023

Higher tobacco prices leads to declining use

Cape Town - In the context of declining tobacco use on a global level, tobacco use in sub-Saharan Africa is predicted to increase substantially in the coming decades. This is the result of fast economic and population growth, coupled with intensive marketing efforts by the tobacco industry. Tobacco use is a leading cause of death and...

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15DecDecember 15, 2022

More South Africans are smoking – higher taxes and stronger law enforcement are needed

Tobacco use imposes a significant health and economic burden on countries. Research estimates that the cost of smoking in South Africa amounted to 0.97% of the country’s GDP in 2016. These costs are likely to have increased as a result of the observed rise in smoking prevalence over the past five years. In 2021, South Africa conducted its first...

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15DecDecember 15, 2022

New smoking laws for South Africa are coming – you’ll soon be fined or jailed for smoking in these areas

The Tobacco Products and Electronic Delivery Systems Control Bill has been tabled before parliament, starting the process of getting proposed changes for smokers and the tobacco industry into law. An explanatory note on the proposed laws was gazetted in October, with the Department of Health giving notice that the bill would be tabled in the...

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11NovNovember 11, 2022

Illicit Trade Persists After Lockdown

The illicit cigarette trade continues to thrive in South Africa despite recent enforcement actions, according to a new Ipsos study. According to Ipsos’ latest study, shops nationwide are still flooded with illegal tobacco products more than two years after the unconstitutional tobacco sales ban was imposed by the government as part of their response to the...

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02NovNovember 2, 2022

35 organisations from 23 African countries call for the removal of Philip Morris International (PMI) from all engagements related to the Africa Trade & Customs Week Summit 2022

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Lomé 02 November, 2022 35 organisations from 23 African countries have denounced the brandishing of Philip Morris International (PMI) as one of the sponsors of the AFRICA TRADE & CUSTOMS WEEK SUMMIT 2022, and called for the withdrawal of the tobacco multinational from all engagements related to the summit which is scheduled to...

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