The usual milch-cows are being lined up as South Africa's Treasury looks to increase its revenue by R1 billion.Read More
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Governments that use tobacco excise tax increases to limit consumption need to look at the wider picture – at whether they are impoverishing tobacco growers and enriching criminals.Read More
The South African Government is unlikely to heed a request to halt cigarette excise tax rises if retail prices can be increased by other means.Read More
Just as there is no point in winking at somebody in the dark; there is no point in trying to sell somebody a new product whose advantages are kept hidden from view. Read More
A South African court has provided a space for growing cannabis for personal use in private.Read More
A requirement for standardized tobacco packaging is included in a new anti-tobacco bill currently before South Africa's parliament.Read More
With experts offering radically different risk assessments of new generation products; consumers should be given all the information available so that they can decide.Read More
A new smoking bill in South Africa that takes in vaping is said to be a "cut-and-paste job from Geneva" that doesn't take account of local circumstances.Read More
One of the consequences of tax 'manipulation by certain players' is that South Africa's licit, tax-compliant tobacco sector is losing market share to the illicit sector ‘at an alarming rate’.Read More
A tobacco- and nicotine-product control-bill is being put out for public comment in South Africa.Read More
