{"id":193284,"date":"2025-09-03T10:24:27","date_gmt":"2025-09-03T10:24:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.premium-partners.net\/?p=193284"},"modified":"2025-09-04T16:08:55","modified_gmt":"2025-09-04T16:08:55","slug":"sas-tobacco-bill-landmark-for-public-health-lobby-group-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.premium-partners.net\/fr\/builder\/sas-tobacco-bill-landmark-for-public-health-lobby-group-says\/","title":{"rendered":"SA\u2019s Tobacco Bill landmark for public health, lobby group says"},"content":{"rendered":"

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South Africa\u2019s Tobacco Bill will help to save lives and protect children from harms caused by smoking the commodity, Bintou Bityeki, the Africa programs director for the lobby group Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids said Wednesday.<\/span><\/p>\n

This comes as big tobacco producers BAT South Africa, Philip Morris, and others are pushing for the separation of legislation between traditional cigarettes and new smokeless alternatives. <\/span>The Tobacco Products and Electronic Delivery Systems Control Bill is a proposed South African law that aims to strengthen public health by regulating the sale, advertising, and use of tobacco and electronic nicotine\/non-nicotine delivery systems, such as vaping devices.<\/span><\/p>\n

Bityeki has described the draft legislation as a \u201c<\/span>landmark public health bill<\/span>\u201d that <\/span>will <\/span>\u201c<\/span>provide an important example for tobacco control efforts across Africa<\/span>\u201d<\/span> when <\/span>adopted.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201c<\/span>The Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids strongly supports the proposed measures as the country looks to protect current and future generations from the deadly harms of tobacco use and nicotine addiction<\/span>,\u201d said Bityeki in a statement.<\/span><\/p>\n

In its current format and once adopted, the bill <\/span>will <\/span>make mandatory <\/span>several evidence-based measures that will protect more than 60 million South Africans. The<\/span>se include the setting up of <\/span>100<\/span>%<\/span> smoke-free indoor public spaces, some smoke-free outdoor spaces and plain packaging with graphic health warnings on e-cigarettes and tobacco products.<\/span><\/p>\n

Big tobacco companies are pushing for the incorporation of science based provisions, arguing that e-cigarettes and other smokeless tobacco products actually help to reduce harm from smoking. They also argue that adult smokers should be given a less harmful option to continue consuming nicotine at a time the World Health Organisation, which says s<\/span>moking is harmful, <\/span>is urging <\/span>its use to be eliminated.<\/span> <\/span><\/p>\n

 The proposed law also introduce<\/span>s fresh<\/span> regulations on e-cigarettes including new restrictions on advertising.<\/span><\/p>\n

South Africa\u2019s<\/span> 2021 Global Adult Tobacco Survey shows that <\/span>e-cigarettes <\/span>are <\/span>most commonly used by young people aged 15 to 24<\/span> while a 2023 survey of university students <\/span>found that more than 26<\/span>% <\/span>used e-cigarettes, with those exposed to e-cigarette advertising and promotion more than three times as likely to be users<\/span>. This highlighted the <\/span>need for regulation.<\/span><\/p>\n

The law will also prohibit vending machines sales of e-cigarettes and tobacco products<\/span>. The Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids says this m<\/span>akes harmful products easily accessible to youth <\/span>as <\/span>the age of the purchaser cannot be verified.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201c<\/span>These important measures will close current loopholes that have been continuously exploited by the tobacco industry, protect South Africans from addiction and ease the enormous burden tobacco places on South Africa’s healthcare system, economy and environment. Without urgent action from South Africa and other countries around the world, tobacco use will kill one billion people worldwide this century<\/span>,\u201d argued Bityeki.<\/span><\/p>\n

However, other <\/span>health experts and scientists argue that <\/span>heated tobacco products expose users to significantly fewer harmful chemicals as opposed to combustible cigarettes.<\/span><\/p>\n

Speaking at the Wellness Collective in Johannesburg last week, <\/span>Dr Vivian Manyeki, a public health physician and epidemiologist at Kenyatta National Hospital, said that although the Tobacco Bill addresses gaps in youth access control and advertising, it risks placing combustible cigarettes and significantly less harmful nicotine products under the same strict regulations.<\/span><\/p>\n

British American Tobacco South Africa (BATSA) also reckons that proper regulation of less harmful tobacco products can help accelerate the transition to a smoke-free South Africa.<\/span><\/p>\n

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South Africa\u2019s Tobacco Bill will help to save lives and protect children from harms caused by smoking the commodity, Bintou Bityeki, the Africa programs director for the lobby group Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids said Wednesday.This comes as big tobacco producers BAT South Africa, Philip Morris, and others are pushing for the separation of legislation between traditional cigarettes and new smokeless alternatives.\u00a0The\u00a0Tobacco Products and Electronic Delivery Systems Control Bill\u00a0is a proposed South African law that aims to strengthen public health by regulating the sale, advertising, and use of tobacco and electronic nicotine\/non-nicotine delivery systems, such as vaping devices.Bityeki has described the draft legislation as a \u201clandmark public health bill\u201d that\u00a0will\u00a0\u201cprovide an important example for tobacco control efforts across Africa\u201d\u00a0when\u00a0adopted.\u201cThe Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids strongly supports the proposed measures as the country looks to protect current and future generations from the deadly harms of tobacco use and nicotine addiction,\u201d said Bityeki in a statement.In its current format and once adopted, the bill\u00a0will\u00a0make mandatory\u00a0several evidence-based measures that will protect more than 60 million South Africans. These include the setting up of\u00a0100%\u00a0smoke-free indoor public spaces, some smoke-free outdoor spaces and plain packaging with graphic health warnings on e-cigarettes and tobacco products.Big tobacco companies are pushing for the incorporation of science based provisions, arguing that e-cigarettes and other smokeless tobacco products actually help to reduce harm from smoking. They also argue that adult smokers should be given a less harmful option to continue consuming nicotine at a time the World Health Organisation, which says smoking is harmful,\u00a0is urging\u00a0its use to be eliminated.\u00a0\u00a0The proposed law also introduces fresh\u00a0regulations on e-cigarettes including new restrictions on advertising.South Africa\u2019s\u00a02021 Global Adult Tobacco Survey shows that\u00a0e-cigarettes\u00a0are\u00a0most commonly used\u00a0by young people aged 15 to 24\u00a0while a 2023 survey of university students\u00a0found that more than 26%\u00a0used e-cigarettes, with those exposed to e-cigarette advertising and promotion more than three times as likely to be users. This highlighted the\u00a0need for regulation.The law will also prohibit vending machines sales of e-cigarettes and tobacco products. The Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids says this makes harmful products easily accessible to youth\u00a0as\u00a0the age of the purchaser cannot be verified.\u201cThese important measures will close current loopholes that have been continuously exploited by the tobacco industry, protect South Africans from addiction and ease the enormous burden tobacco places on South Africa’s healthcare system, economy and environment. Without urgent action from South Africa and other countries around the world, tobacco use will kill one billion people worldwide this century,\u201d argued Bityeki.However, other\u00a0health experts and scientists argue that\u00a0heated tobacco products expose users to significantly fewer harmful chemicals\u00a0as opposed to combustible cigarettes.Speaking at the Wellness Collective in Johannesburg last week,\u00a0Dr Vivian Manyeki, a public health physician and epidemiologist at Kenyatta National Hospital, said that although the Tobacco Bill addresses gaps in youth access control and advertising, it risks placing combustible cigarettes and significantly less harmful nicotine products under the same strict regulations.British American Tobacco South Africa (BATSA) also reckons that proper regulation of less harmful tobacco products can help accelerate the transition to a smoke-free South Africa.BUSINESS REPORT<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":106377,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-193284","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-builder"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.premium-partners.net\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193284","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.premium-partners.net\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.premium-partners.net\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.premium-partners.net\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.premium-partners.net\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=193284"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.premium-partners.net\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193284\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":193285,"href":"https:\/\/www.premium-partners.net\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193284\/revisions\/193285"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.premium-partners.net\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/106377"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.premium-partners.net\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.premium-partners.net\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.premium-partners.net\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}