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How to end tobacco use for good: What SA's Covid-19 tobacco ban has taught us


Local tobacco companies’ market share quadrupled during the country’s temporary sales ban in 2020, overtaking Big Tobacco’s pre-ban near-monopoly on South Africa’s tobacco industry.
The sales ban did cause people to smoke less and prevented more than 2 000 tobacco-related deaths, but at the expense of progress made to curb illicit trade in the country by the South African Revenue Service.
Hiking excise taxes would probably have had the same results and the taxman would not have lost R5.8-billion.
Local tobacco companies were coining it during South Africa’s tobacco sales ban - their share of local sales quadrupled during the temporary ban put in place in 2020, shows an analysis by researchers at the University of Cape Town’s Research Unit on the Economics of Excisable Products, REEP. ....

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Truck driver caught smuggling cigarettes worth more than R1m in Springs


Truck driver caught smuggling cigarettes worth more than R1m in Springs
19 April 2021 - 12:12
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A truck driver from Zimbabwe was arrested for smuggling illicit cigarettes worth more than R1m in Springs in Ekurhuleni at the weekend.
Ekurhuleni metro police spokesperson Thabiso Makgato said the driver was arrested after the truck was pulled over on the N17 offramp on Saturday afternoon.
The arrest was made during Operation Kurhula.
Makgato said the truck was loaded with boxes of illicit cigarettes worth more than R1m.
The driver is expected to appear in the Springs magistrate’s court soon to face charges of possession and possibly dealing of illicit cigarettes. ....

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Use money for NDZ's tobacco ban appeal to tackle illegal cigarette boom - BATSA


British American Tobacco says it is not surprised that government has been granted leave to appeal a court ruling that the lockdown ban on tobacco sales was not necessary. Picture: iStock/ Zhang Rong
British American Tobacco SA is confident that the Supreme Court of Appeal will uphold a Western Cape High Court decision in its favour.
The case related to the necessity of last year s lockdown bans on the sale of tobacco products.
Government claimed it was necessary in order to prevent an even greater demand for ICU beds during the pandemic.
British American Tobacco SA (BATSA) is disappointed, but not surprised , that Minister of Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma has been granted leave to appeal the Western Cape High Court s ruling that the lockdown ban on tobacco sales was unconstitutional and invalid. ....

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