# Tobacco Products Bill

- Link: https://dearsouthafrica.co.za/tobacco-products-bill/
- Published: 2023-06-22T13:47:47+02:00
- Author: dearSA

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### **7418 **comments sent to parliament (closed 4 September 2023)

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### The Portfolio Committee on Health invited the public to comment on the Tobacco Products and Electronic Delivery Systems Control Bill.

The objective of the Bill is to:

    - regulate smoking and vaping;
    - regulate the sale and advertising of tobacco products and electronic delivery
      systems;
    - regulate the packaging and appearance of tobacco products and electronic delivery
      systems and to make provision for the standardisation of their packaging;
    - provide for standards in respect of the manufacturing and export of tobacco
      products and electronic delivery systems;
    - prohibit the sale of tobacco products and electronic delivery systems to children;
    - prohibit the free distribution of tobacco products and electronic delivery
      systems;
    - prohibit the sale of tobacco products and electronic delivery systems by means
      of vending machines.

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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,”

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