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Sars plan for illicit tobacco still being refined

Business Tshegofatso Mathe - 22 Aug 2020

Meanwhile, billions of illegal cigarettes are flooding the informal markets as lockdown regulations are lifted at last

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A new smoke signal: Is Big Tobacco using influencers to illegally punt new products?

Article Joan Van Dyk & Bhekisisa Team - 20 Jun 2019

Could companies’ wooing of social media influencers be just a clever ploy to get around the country’s tobacco advertising ban?

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We must act now to save Nigeria’s generation of ‘tobacco babies’

Article Adewunmi Emoruwa - 4 Apr 2019

Muzzled by stringent laws and diligent implementation in the West, the tobacco industry has turned its sights to sub-Saharan Africa

Mergers and acquisitions in a tough economic time

Article Cayleigh Bright - 26 Oct 2018

Often, owners of struggling businesses agree gladly to being bought out

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Tobacco ‘epidemic’ in Africa fuelled by fewer filters

Article Thulebona Mhlanga - 14 Sep 2018

Cigarette consumption in Africa rose by 40% between 1990 and 2012

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Big Tobacco in bed with SA law enforcement agencies

Article Sam Sole Author & Sam Sole - 20 Mar 2014

A probe into the tobacco industry can show how two companies have used their resources to influence SA state agencies to protect their interests.

British American Tobacco: Sin still sells, in SA and abroad

Article Staff Reporter - 20 Dec 2013

Lower volumes do little to hurt British American Tobacco’s profits and the demand for its shares.

Show me the money

Article Sponsored Feature - 26 Aug 2011

Difficult economic times are seeing employers negotiating a myriad of challenges, including demands for salary increases and better packages.

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