It’s time to put an end to the discussions about the merits of electronic cigarettes as “safer” alternatives to tobacco and the fantastical need for a multitude of vape flavours,…
Big tobacco companies are the foreign entities planting misinformation to keep South Africans addicted as they put profit over the health of the population
New legislation seeks to stop tobacco companies from luring non-smoking teens into becoming addicted to their deadly produc
Adults must make free choices about their lives and parents and communities are responsible for providing guidance and supervision for
Measures must be taken to ensure that consumers and policymakers are not misled by industry-funded pseudo-science
Since Homo sapiens became a thing about 300 000 years ago, we have never breathed more carbon dioxide, absorbed more industrial toxins or processed more privatised propaganda
But regardless of whether it is sniffed, sucked or chewed, the plant is still bad for people’s health
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Harm reduction, not regulations will help South African smokers to quit
With its tobacco dollars going up in smoke, the country is struggling to keep its petrol-starved cars on the road
The cigarette maker has been accused of giving up to $500 000 in bribes and spying on competitors
Proposed bribe to Zanu-PF was co-ordinated by South African private security company FSS
In two weeks the co-operative governance minister will continue her fight against Batsa after the tobacco ban was found to be was unconstitutional
The tobacco company has counter-filed for leave to appeal December’s tobacco ruling, should the government’s application for leave to appeal be successful
With the number of cases spiralling out of control in hotspots in the Eastern Cape and Western Cape, longer curfews and restrictions on alcohol sales are being implemented
Meanwhile, billions of illegal cigarettes are flooding the informal markets as lockdown regulations are lifted at last
President Ramaphosa drops most of the restrictions that have been in place for the last five months, citing ‘signs of hope’
This entails putting them at the centre of national strategies, but doing it without high CO2 releases
Governments need to provide the modelling and data informing the strategy to control the spread of the novel coronavirus
The Cape Town institution, which has traded from the same location for 200 years, has been forced from its premises because of being unable to sell tobacco during the lockdown
