Big tobacco companies are the foreign entities planting misinformation to keep South Africans addicted as they put profit over the health of the population
Measures must be taken to ensure that consumers and policymakers are not misled by industry-funded pseudo-science
The Bill says the same rules should apply to vaping and traditional cigarettes and that both should be sold in plain packaging and banned in all public spaces
Lobbyists pushing for vaping as a way to help people quit smoking insist taxing e-cigarettes like traditional smokes will lead down a similar path as denying HIV treatment to state patients
Tax agency’s custom officials in Durban seize imported cigarettes that were declared as tissue paper
If South Africa is prepared to draw on international harm reduction best practice, it could generate good legislation to regulate vaping and e-cigarettes cleverly
South Africa’s tobacco industry interference statistics are improving year on year, but more needs to be done
The Cape Town institution, which has traded from the same location for 200 years, has been forced from its premises because of being unable to sell tobacco during the lockdown
In his speech, Finance Minister Tito Mboweni reprioritised millions for new health workers and hospital upgrades. Here’s what he needs to do next.
The chairperson of the Tobacco Institute of Southern Africa has responded to Bhekisisa’s article "Did big tobacco buy Twitter?"
The tobacco industry in Southern Africa is taking action to improve small-scale agriculture in the region.
The country knows it needs to diversify its agriculture, but the vested interests of multinational giants is hampering its efforts.
Some researchers say e-cigarettes are less toxic than tobacco, but they are certainly addictive.
HRW documents the shocking conditions on tobacco farms in the US, where child workers are exposed to nicotine, toxic pesticides and other dangers.
The paucity of available information has only served to confuse the issue further.
The country’s tobacco industry is recovering well – but at the expense of food and the environment.
Teens who are regular users of cannabis are at risk of permanent damage to their intelligence, according to research covering nearly four decades.
British American Tobacco warns it could choke from the onslaught of rules and grey imports, writes Lisa Steyn
Despite the poverty-stricken country’s avowed intentions, it is dependent on the crop and those who must pick it.
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/ 3 September 2010
Zimbabwe’s tobacco sale closed on Friday with a record crop of 122-million kilograms having been sold.
investigation finds child labourers in Malawi are exposed to nicotine poisoning equivalent to smoking 50 cigarettes a day.
British American Tobacco (BAT) bought a majority stake in a top Indonesian cigarette firm on Wednesday.
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/ 23 October 2008
These are the latest ”It” parties where smokers network and try out new brands while being treated to a glam — and often free — night out.
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/ 26 September 2008
It was the golden age of Hollywood, a time when movies defined who we were and what we did. But it was also the golden age of tobacco sponsorship.
We might think we’re big in mining, synthetic fuels, cellphones or banking, but our biggest listed company on the JSE soon will be in tobacco.