The National Treasury has resolved not to hike the general fuel levy and the Road Accident Fund levy for the first time in 31 years to cushion hard-pressed consumers from soaring petrol prices. This was announced by finance minister Enoch…
SIPOKAZI FOKAZI A leading child health specialist has described the exposure of children to second-hand cigarette smoke and other electronic nicotine delivery devices, such as e-cigarettes and vapers, as similar to squeezing life out of…
IAVAN PIJOOS The cigarette ban in the country was “successful” and slashed a number of emergency visits for lung diseases at a Western Cape hospital, a study revealed. According to a study by the African Journal of Primary Health Care &…
ANC Women’s League remains opposed to plans to lift the restrictions ‘as SA could be hit by another wave’ of Covid-19 infections. ANC Women’s League president Bathabile Dlamini has reiterated the league’s opposition to the lifting of the…
Police conducting a roadblock in KwaMbonambi in northern KwaZulu-Natal arrested nine suspects after finding them with prohibited items including cigarettes and dagga. During the roadblock on the N2 on Friday, police stopped two minibus…
IAVAN PIJOOS Four suspects have been arrested for allegedly smuggling illicit cigarettes worth over R1m into SA, police said on Tuesday. Police spokesperson Brig Motlafela Mojapelo said the K9 unit, soldiers and custom officials arrested…
Cigarette manufacturing company British American Tobacco South Africa (Batsa) has filed papers in the Western Cape High Court challenging the ongoing ban on tobacco sales. The company‚ which filed a joint application with some tobacco…
No short-term benefit to quitting and no proof of freeing up of hospital beds The Fair Trade Independent Tobacco Association (Fita) has attached two reports from medical professionals showing that banning the sale of tobacco products and…
The SA Informal Traders Alliance (Saita) has called on the government to lift the ban on cigarette sales under level 3 of the lockdown, warning that a continued ban until level 1 will put informal traders on the streets. The alliance, the…
Economists behind an extensive survey of smokers say the lockdown ban on cigarette sales has been a spectacular failure and should be lifted as soon as possible. More than 90% of the 12,000-plus smokers who completed an online…
Ban on cigarettes and liquor costs state billions in lost taxes Bootlegging has hit the suburbs as South Africans turn to technology, WhatsApp groups and bartering to keep themselves supplied with their favourite tipple while liquor…
Tobacco is a harmful substance, there is no longer any doubt about that. The links between tobacco smoke and lung cancer are well established – cigarettes can cause up to 15 different types of cancer, according to Cancer Research UK. But…
By Aron Hyman A 24-year-old police constable was arrested on Thursday after he allegedly robbed a Somali shop owner of two cartons of cigarettes in Cape Town. olice also managed to retrieve a R5 police-issue assault rifle that the officer…
