What to expect from South Africa’s new smoking and e-cigarette laws

[BusinessTech]

What to expect from South Africa’s new smoking and e-cigarette laws

A number of big changes to South Africa's smoking laws will soon come into effect.

 

[Lupus]

I'm all for stopping smoking, but honestly this won't stop current smokers. Hopefully maybe make no new ones. It's weird but smoking as a thing has only really been around a 150 years at most, before that no one really smoked and maybe with tighter controls less will in future, so it will be a sort of time bubble where people filled their lungs with poison on purpose.

 

[Hemi300c]

ANC is cutting its tax income in various ways so they cutting their own throats and down sizing their gravy train.

Less money to steal means wors service delivery and hence the poor suffer worse than others.
*worse

 

[Nick333]

I'm all for stopping smoking, but honestly this won't stop current smokers. Hopefully maybe make no new ones. It's weird but smoking as a thing has only really been around a 150 years at most, before that no one really smoked and maybe with tighter controls less will in future, so it will be a sort of time bubble where people filled their lungs with poison on purpose.

People have smoked things for a lot longer than 150 years. As long as we've been cultivating hemp at least.

 

[Nick333]

ANC is cutting its tax income in various ways so they cutting their own throats and down sizing their gravy train.

Less money to steal means wors service delivery and hence the poor suffer worse than others.

Is that a new Mr D venture in Pretoria?

 

[|tera|]

Love the logic. Let's make weed legal guys, but yo, you're not allowed to smoke in public anymore.
Bunch of nonsense to say the least.

 

[Lupus]

People have smoked things for a lot longer than 150 years. As long as we've been cultivating hemp at least.

Yes they have, but the widespread smoking has only been a more recent event, as cigarettes became more popular and around the Crimean war. The 20th century was when it became quite widespread.

 

[Aquila ka Hecate]

I'm all for stopping smoking, but honestly this won't stop current smokers. Hopefully maybe make no new ones. It's weird but smoking as a thing has only really been around a 150 years at most, before that no one really smoked and maybe with tighter controls less will in future, so it will be a sort of time bubble where people filled their lungs with poison on purpose.

The thousand year old god of Palenque begs to differ

 

[Aquila ka Hecate]

Yes they have, but the widespread smoking has only been a more recent event, as cigarettes became more popular and around the Crimean war. The 20th century was when it became quite widespread.

Sorry, but that's a very Euro-restricted worldview.
Aztecs and Mayans for example have a much longer history of smoking.

 

[Lupus]

Sorry, but that's a very Euro-restricted worldview.
Aztecs and Mayans for example have a much longer history of smoking.

Widespread, notice how I use the word widespread. Using it for religious purposes is very different to having someone puffing in a restaurant, movie theater and and. This only started with the advent of more accessible cigarettes around the 1840s.

 

[Nick333]

Sorry, but that's a very Euro-restricted worldview.
Aztecs and Mayans for example have a much longer history of smoking.

They should ban smoking tabacco on the grounds that it's cultural appropriation.

 

[Jet-Fighter7700]

in all honesty, it wont make much of a difference, smokers will smoke and will still buy R100 a pack.

 

[Lupus]

in all honesty, it wont make much of a difference, smokers will smoke and will still buy R100 a pack.

This, look at Australia it's 30 dollars a pack and people still buy it.

 

[Pineapple Smurf]

Just as well I stopped on 19th October

 

[Mista_Mobsta]

I'm all for stopping smoking, but honestly this won't stop current smokers. Hopefully maybe make no new ones. It's weird but smoking as a thing has only really been around a 150 years at most, before that no one really smoked and maybe with tighter controls less will in future, so it will be a sort of time bubble where people filled their lungs with poison on purpose.

Why would you want to stop people smoking? I don't smoke personally but a lot of people, including my wife and some family members smoke, so why would anyone try to take away their freedom to have a gwaai? Responsible smoking should be the thing.

***EDIT
Maybe I misunderstood your point...thought you meant everyone should stop?

 

[Nick333]

in all honesty, it wont make much of a difference, smokers will smoke and will still buy R100 a pack.

That's what makes it such a great racket for governments.

 

[Lupus]

Why would you want to stop people smoking? I don't smoke personally but a lot of people, including my wife and some family members smoke, so why would anyone try to take away their freedom to have a gwaai? Responsible smoking should be the thing.

***EDIT
Maybe I misunderstood your point...thought you meant everyone should stop?

My wife smokes, I would like her to stop yes, but I would just prefer no new smokers be created that is all. It's disgusting and being smoke free for 6 years has been great.

 

[Aquila ka Hecate]

They should ban smoking tabacco on the grounds that it's cultural appropriation.

More to the point, if I Identify as a Shaman, will banning me from smoking indoors be a curtailment of my religious freedoms?

 

[Lupus]

More to the point, if I Identify as a Shaman, will banning me from smoking indoors be a curtailment of my religious freedoms?

Has that worked on Rastafarians? Also you can smoke in your own home, just not in a public place.

 

[Mista_Mobsta]

My wife smokes, I would like her to stop yes, but I would just prefer no new smokers be created that is all. It's disgusting and being smoke free for 6 years has been great.

Grats man! My old man stopped smoking as he absolutely loved snorkeling but couldn't hold his breath for more than 30secs. I think education around the effects of smoking is having a massive effect in the world. In the end, people should be free to decide what they do to their bodies.