đź”’ ‘Something very peculiar is going on in cigarette market’: UCT Prof CornĂ© van Walbeek
Research among smokers shows that the lockdown ban on cigarettes hasn’t worked, and has in fact caused a lot more problems than it solves.
Research among smokers shows that the lockdown ban on cigarettes hasn’t worked, and has in fact caused a lot more problems than it solves.
The DA says government should decriminalise the use of tobacco products during the national lockdown, and fine those who do not follow the rules.
Tobacco insider Azeem Carim explains how the SA government’s lockdown-enforced ban on cigarette sales has generated a massive payday at taxpayers’ expense.
In Episode 55 of Inside Covid-19, global medical heavyweight Prof Linda-Gail Bekker shares her wisdom about the pandemic – and how little we still know.
The economy contracted an annualized 2% in the first quarter, the first time since 2009 that a South African recession has lasted longer than two quarters.
Yusuf Kajee opened a cigarette factory in Pietermaritzburg in 2007 with John Bredenkamp about whom our SLR wrote a fascinating obit last week.
Government minister Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma had “a firm rational basis” to ban tobacco sales to curb the spread of Covid-19 – High Court ruling.
In Episode 39 of Inside Covid-19, Discovery and its partners combine to provide a R249 per month medical aid for 1.2m household workers.
Official government research shows that the cigarette ban is needlessly exposing millions of South Africans to the spread of Covid-19.
British American Tobacco will begin negotiations with the South African government instead of taking legal action to overturn a national ban on cigarette sales now in its sixth week.