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...
Scientists are therefore calling for these filters to be banned entirely. On the beach or cityscape, cigarette butts can be seen everywhere. An estimated 4.5 trillion filter-only cigarettes are smoked and butted annually. More than half of these butts—65%—are not discarded in a trash can or ashtray. Unused cigarette filters contain 4,000 compounds, many of...
The Australian government will ban e-cigarettes through a heavy set of controls on imports and packaging to discourage vaping, especially among teens, under its biggest smoking reforms in more than a decade. Australian Health Minister Mark Butler on Tuesday said vaping has become a top behavioral issue in high schools and a growing problem in elementary schools...
Health minister announces new tax measures shortly after revealing sweeping reforms to crack down on vaping The Albanese government will increase the tax on tobacco by 5% per year over the next three years, the health minister has revealed, alongside a suite of measures to crack down on vaping. But he said Australia has no plans to...
Last year, the Food and Drug Administration proposed a ban on menthol flavored cigarettes, a product historically marketed to Black people. Now health advocates are urging the FDA to move forward. GPB’s Ellen Eldridge has more. Decades have gone by since the first data indicated that smoking cigarettes is hazardous to one's health and nicotine...
Although smoking rates for adults in the US are at their lowest recorded levels, more must be done to stop children from using tobacco, according to a new set of policy statements from the American Academy of Pediatrics. The statements, published Monday, are the association’s first tobacco policy update since 2015. They’re based on newer science and...
Stakeholders at a consultation on Monday pledged commitment to tobacco control initiatives by signing a consensual statement. The statement emphasized the need to address newer nicotine products, in addition to traditional tobacco. The signatories vowed to work collaboratively to ensure the successful implementation of these efforts for a healthier society. The pledge was made at the...
The Dutch government on Friday said it would ban the sale of all types of nicotine pouches in the Netherlands, while widening the rules for tobacco to include all other types of tobacco-free nicotine products. The government said the ban would make it easier to uphold the rules regarding nicotine pouches, which are currently only...
Ministry of Health in collaboration with Development Gateway has launched the Tobacco Control Data Initiative (TCDI) dashboard through the Division of Tobacco Control. Speaking on Wednesday, Health Director General Patrick Amoth said that the policy makers in Kenya will now have a powerful tool at their disposal to drive evidence-based decision making and support efforts...
The Nigerian government has said it will increase the tax imposed on tobacco products from the current 30 to 50 per cent in order to meet the World Health organization (WHO) standard and curb smoking in the country. Dr Mangai Malau, Head, Tobacco Control Unit, Noncommunicable Disease Division, Nigeria’s Federal Ministry of Health disclosed this...
