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Govt’s motive questioned as it appeals ruling on cigarette ban
The government has on Tuesday filed court papers setting clear its intention to apply for leave to appeal in the Supreme Court of Appeal.
The gist of its argument is: the ban is sinking the country's entire tobacco industry, which means jobs are at risk and tax revenue is being dealt a blow.
The ban on cigarette sales was implemented at the start of the lockdown almost seven weeks ago.
Government is facing legal action from the British Tobacco Association of South Africa for banning the sale of tobacco products.
Excise revenue collected from tobacco products dropped from R13 billion in the 2015/16 fiscal year to R12.1 billion in 2016/17 and to R10.9 billion in 2017/18.
Nicotine doesn't lead to the health conditions caused by smoking. Heart attacks, lung cancer can be blamed on other cigarette additives like tar.
Shares of major tobacco companies in the US and UK slumped in heavy trading volume after the proposal was unveiled by the head of the US Food and Drug Administration.
At present, a packet of 20 cigarettes costs roughly €7 in France, well below the roughly €10 charged in Britain and Ireland.
The smoke released by this “heat-not-burn” cigarette had 84% of the nicotine found in traditional cigarettes, researchers report in JAMA Internal Medicine.
Smoking pot in young adulthood does not seem to increase the risk of early stroke.
Executives from Philip Morris, which sells Marlboros, said their ultimate goal was to phase out cigarettes.
Two people, including an 11-year-old girl, were killed in the Kuils River blaze which broke out this morning.
Some of these molecular changes revert to their original state when a smoker quits.
Paying smokers to quit and giving them more money to avoid cigarettes might help get more people to quit.
Cigarette smoke contains arsenic, which causes heart damage, & formaldehyde, which causes throat cancer.
A study revealed this new number based on data for more than 1,200 adult smokers in Canada.
E-cigarettes are handheld electronic devices that vapourise a fluid typically including nicotine.
Aaron Motsoaledi is looking at a raft of new regulations to make it tougher for smokers to buy cigarettes.
Often, children aren’t seriously harmed, but several have had severe complications like comas and seizures.