Have a say on the Tobacco Products Bill

The objective of the Bill is to:

Have your say – shape the Bill [CLOSED]

Do you support the Tobacco Products and Electronic Delivery Systems Control Bill as is?

What is your top concern? (scroll down to view details)

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Concerns from the industry

- British American Tobacco SA (BATSA) said the bill would accelerate the destruction of the legal tobacco value chain and permanently entrench a dominant illicit trade, without reducing smoking.
  “Removing unique brand identifiers through plain packaging would make price the primary consumer consideration, causing a shift to cheaper, predominantly illicit, options, and this would make smoking more affordable and likely increase consumption,”
- Warren Dreyer, owner of a chain of 25 specialist tobacco stores called JJ Cale, which employs 95 people said: “If this Bill is passed, it will mean that as a specialist tobacconist, I will be banned from displaying the actual products that I sell.
- Limpopo Tobacco Processors, represented by François van der Merwe said: “Government should go back to the drawing board and work on realistic and practical solutions that are based on the economic and social realities of the day – and stop opening up the South African economy to more and more mafia-type, tax-dodging criminal networks. We have enough of those already,”