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Cigarette sales ban battle looms
Tobacco companies are fighting to lift the ban on cigarette sales, but research shows people are still smoking — and this is feeding the black market
Smokers’ fight to light up moves online
‘Sweeties’ (cigarettes) for R150, and marching on Parliament — an insight into the social-media groups popping up to push back against lockdown regulations
‘Those who zol’: Dangerous discourses in a time of crisis
Smoking out social tobacco users as unique spreaders of the coronavirus sends out the wrong messages
Covid-19: Sharing isn’t caring
No break for the smokers and drinkers from Prez Pozi and Dr No, but we’re still zolling ...
Eusebius McKaiser: A few critics are smoking some strong stuff
Blame and praise can’t be apportioned to individual leaders of a collective Cabinet
Lockdown syndrome: The latest fallout from the Covid-19 crisis
Is this “syndrome” another symptom that the lockdown has made us all a little bit crazy? Is it a symbol that we all just need to get a grip on it?
Level four lockdown: Dlamini-Zuma stubs out South Africa’s hopes for a puff
Some industries will open but the tobacco ban remains in place, contradicting the president’s earlier remarks
Tobacco and a tipple gave comfort during times of war
Allied forces in the two world wars were provided with cigarettes. The anti-smoking Nazis used taxes on tobacco to help fill Germany’s depleted coffers
Gangs profit though guns are silent
The lockdown has seen fewer incidents of gang violence in some dangerous Cape Town areas, but the criminal underworld is still hard at work
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