Big Tobacco tries to stop SA’s anti-smoking Bill from becoming law

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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

It seems South Africa’s long-awaited new anti-tobacco legislation is set to go nowhere slowly — again. 

On Wednesday, parliament’s newly appointed portfolio committee on health sat to discuss the Tobacco Bill for the first time since South Africa’s post-election government was formed in June.

The contentious…



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