Ban on alcohol and cigarettes in South Africa

[Moosedrool]

It is extremely painful I know. By the way, who the heck shares cigarettes with covid-19 around? Who smokes a hookah (are we in Cario, Istanbul??) and shares it with covid-19 around? If a person is that dumb, then they should go the way Darwin researched ffs.

More people will share now since the black market cigarettes are more expensive and harder to come by.

ANC logic fail number 97645532144

 

[Napalm]

Someone told me, you can take the innards of a banana.... the white stuff.
Dry it out for a day or so and smoke it.

 

[Aghori]

Ok I'm back from the local store. 30's Stuyvesant is now R140 a packet. A packet of the worst shyte imaginable is R25 for a packet of 20's.

 

[Moosedrool]

Ok I'm back from the local store. 30's Stuyvesant is now R140 a packet. A packet of the worst shyte imaginable is R25 for a packet of 20's.

Create the economy in the black market. Suffer and buy the cheap brands so that they are forced to lower the prices for the more expensive ones.

Even Gareth Cliff is mentioning civil disobedience and he doesn't smoke. As citizens the one thing we should not do is enable the government with regulation that doesn't benefit the country or the people.

 

[Groen92]

Guess we know who is running the show.... starts with an N

I feel bad for this guy. He must be sweating bullets.

 

[MachoPants]

Apparently a bottle of Harriers Whiskey will get you 4 packets of stuyvesant or similar

 

[TEXTILE GUY]

You'd think that but the dollar seems to be doing okay. The emerging markets lost around 4% yesterday again.

Folks hedging ...
That aside, the US economy is moving.

Most shops have always traded, and we we are, walk ins on most shops from today.
Restaurants have all done delivery or pick up.

Talks are on to open Disney at limited capacity.

Personally, I haven't missed a paycheck yet.

Having said that, some folks have fallen on hard times, but should have had a stimulus check by now.

The economy in the US hasn't stopped at all like in S A

 

[TEXTILE GUY]

Well I ran out of smokes yesterday and our contact that we used to get more seems to have also dissapeared. Truly and utterly ****ed now, and everything is starting to annoy the living hell out of me.

Lol

Contact out of stock

 

[Groen92]

Lockdown impact : Alcohol and tobacco ban costs SA’s collapsing economy an additional R1.7bn

North of R1.7bn has been lost in sin tax revenue over 29 days in April from the hard Covid-19 lockdown ban on alcohol and tobacco, Parliament’s finance and appropriation committees heard on Thursday.

www.dailymaverick.co.za

 

[LetsDance]

People are probably sharing cool drinks right out of the bottle - must the sale of cool drinks be banned now?

 

[Groen92]

People are probably sharing cool drinks right out of the bottle - must the sale of cool drinks be banned now?

And here we thought lockdown was going to be eased, hey?

 

[borro]

People are probably sharing cool drinks right out of the bottle - must the sale of cool drinks be banned now?

& masks, sigh. Keeping up appearances.

 

[Aghori]

Apparently a bottle of Harriers Whiskey will get you 4 packets of stuyvesant or similar

I got offered either R1 000 or 2 cartons Stuyvesant reds for my bottle of Jameson special reserve. The dop cost around R450 or so when I bought it a few months ago.

 

[IndigoIdentity]

I got offered either R1 000 or 2 cartons Stuyvesant reds for my bottle of Jameson special reserve. The dop cost around R450 or so when I bought it a few months ago.

Well thanks for the idea, I actually have a few gifted bottles laying around as I don't drink... I wonder now what they would be worth when out and about

 

[LetsDance]

Someone told me, you can take the innards of a banana.... the white stuff.
Dry it out for a day or so and smoke it.

Ever seen the Shining with Jack Nicholson foaming at the mouth? I am becoming that guy.

 

[Neoprod]

I got offered either R1 000 or 2 cartons Stuyvesant reds for my bottle of Jameson special reserve. The dop cost around R450 or so when I bought it a few months ago.

Jirre.

I gave a Famous Grouse and an Aberlour 12 to my brother-in-law yesterday...didn't realise I could have asked for his firstborn.

 

[KleinBoontjie]

https://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/packs-unopened-chicken-donkey-rabbit-253931352

 

[Groen92]

Bloomberg - Are you a robot?

www.bloomberg.com

I'm tired of these tyrannical mollocks. What's their beef with people who smoke? I suppose they hate that people can pick their poisons. Guessing we can't have human euthanasia either. No no no. No ultimate freedom for you!

 

[Gordon_R]

The big boys are taking legal action:

British American Tobacco threatens Dlamini-Zuma with court action over tobacco sales ban

British American Tobacco South Africa has demanded that Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs Minister Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma amend regulations prohibiting the sale of tobacco products.

www.news24.com

If it doesn't receive confirmation from Dlamini-Zuma that the regulation will be reversed by 10:00 on Monday, BAT will lodge an urgent court application to review and set aside the regulation on the grounds that it is unlawful and irregular.

They claim the regulation was made without authority (ultra vires), was unreasonable, was included for an ulterior purpose and was reintroduced without a procedurally fair process.

 

[Moosedrool]

The big boys are taking legal action:

British American Tobacco threatens Dlamini-Zuma with court action over tobacco sales ban

British American Tobacco South Africa has demanded that Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs Minister Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma amend regulations prohibiting the sale of tobacco products.

www.news24.com

Ag shem. When? Next year?