On Wednesday, cooperative governance and traditional affairs minister Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma prohibited the sale of cigarettes during the nationwide lockdown.
Capetonians spoke out about the ban on cigarettes announced by minister of co-operative governance & traditional affairs Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma on April 29 2020. This comes less than a week after president Cyril Ramaphosa announced that cigarettes would be back on shelves across the country when the Covid-19 lockdown level is eased to level 4 on May 1 2020.
“It is worth mentioning that reducing the supply of a drug, or banning the sale or possession thereof, has never and will never help people quit. It hasn’t worked in 100 years and it won’t work in another 1,000 years. "There is also no evidence to connect e-cigarette use and Covid-19, and this is an actively researched area. If you are going to ban cigarettes, you should at least provide smokers with an alternative,” said West.Speaking to TimesLIVE, five smokers, including author and publisher Melinda Ferguson, explained what effects the ban had on them.
fita_sa And it has catastrophic disasters i.hope ppl will come forward & sue govt for putting them through this excruciating trauma
correct 1st week i was ready to snap heads but it gets better
It's good things are getting worse i mean it's not like the poor and starving need the extra 1.5bln rand that was lost over alcohol and cigarettes anyway at DlaminiZuma PresidencyZA CyrilRamaphosa
Give people freedom of choice PresidencyZA DlaminiZuma CyrilRamaphosa GovernmentZA
VijayShadean CannabisIsEssential
Psychiatric patients are now becoming ungovernable, they are now aggressive towards each other and the system
fita_sa If you've never been a smoker, are a smug ex-smoker or have absolutely no clue about addiction, please don't comment and be a dick.
fita_sa More proof!
The gvnt must just allow the smokers to smoke themselves to death.
Nonsense
margzstarpie I drink more now as I stocked up on alcohol but not cigarettes. I feel like an idiot!!
That's also contribute to GBV
Somebody needs to investigate why a clinic that construction was completed more than a year ago is still not in operation.
It's over 37 days now this thing was burned Where was those symptoms, we not intimidated CigarettesMustFall
Wow! Did he ever warn about the poor not getting food?
It seems that this is what the gov wants. Total mayhem and chaos. Then they can institute Marshall law. And Field Marshall Cele will be happy.
Doctors & scientists who are in the pockets of big conglomerates, we know them very well.
They won't die
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Anxiety, withdrawal, the illegal market - smokers tell their stories, and psychiatrist warns against banThe government's u-turn on cigarette sales could result in disastrous consequences of acute, forced, involuntary nicotine withdrawal, warns psychiatrist Dr Mike West. That’s better than COPD which kills thousands every year. Yes but should legal cigarette sales be allowed again, the woman in the doek and her gangster friends would lose out on smuggling. Who funded NDZ's Nasrec campaign? Adriano Mazzotti, a known tobacco smuggler. expose the syndicates behind the ban!!
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