The chairperson of the Tobacco Institute of Southern Africa has responded to Bhekisisa’s article "Did big tobacco buy Twitter?"
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‘What is disturbing is that our government, Sars in particular, moves very slowly when it comes to taking action against illicit traders’
‘E-cigarette smokers might have a higher risk than nonsmokers of developing lung and bladder cancers and heart diseases’
It is no coincidence that the biggest companies by far on the JSE trade on human weaknesses.
Sturk’s is a haven for pipe-smokers, with its hand-blended tobacco and old-school vibe.
The Sadc country’s farmers feel trapped in a contract system they blame for low prices and growing debt in its tobacco industry.
If the health minister has his way, vaping will soon be regulated like regular smoking because, he says, Big Tobacco is complicit in its rise.
I decided to go cold turkey: I no longer reek of cigarette smoke, my wife no longer recoils when I slink into bed, I sleep better, I breathe better.
The nation’s healthcare system reflects the actions of the ministers responsible for it over the years.
Half of all SA smokers tried to quit last year –and failed. How can we raise the success rate?
Agriculture experts warn about the hype around tobacco and the high prices that the crop is fetching.
KT&G has agreed to pull the ads for new cigarette brand This Africa after its use of monkeys to ‘remind people of Africa’ was deemed racist.
Tobacco retailers have expressed worry over the effects of stricter tobacco display regulations, proposed by the health minister.
Farmers in Zimbabwe have ditched staple crops such as maize for tobacco, which brings in more money.
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/ 6 September 2013
Even though traces of cancer-causing chemicals have been found, the real killer – tobacco – is absent.
High prices are reviving the crop from its slump, but the demographics are altogether different.
New tobacco regulations for farmers could cost millions of jobs and revenue in a bid to save on health costs, writes Lloyd Gedye,
A study has shown that a ban on smoking in restaurants does not affect business negatively.
Zimbabwe’s peasant farmers are flourishing in what was previously the domain of white farmers, and Zanu-PF is happy to take the credit.
After decades of indifference government is turning up the heat on smokers in South Korea, a nation with one of the highest male smoking rates.
Tobacco is the only legally available product that kills people when it is used entirely as intended.
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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.
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/ 11 September 2009
Foreign tobacco buyers who are paying less than agreed-upon prices for tobacco are the ”enemy of the people”, said Malawi’s president.
Over five million people die from the effects of tobacco globally a year, which is higher than HIV/Aids, malaria and tuberculosis deaths combined.
A Zimbabwean scientist is developing a cheaper rabies vaccine made from tobacco leaves.
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/ 6 September 2008
The Marlboro cigarettes empire Altria is in talks to buy the United States’s biggest maker of chewing tobacco.
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.
The North West legislature will hold public hearings on two Bills for the prevention and treatment of substance abuse later this month.
The perennial political and economic crisis in Zimbabwe has wreaked havoc with the country’s once-thriving tobacco industry.