Dlamini-Zuma said the state thus had a duty to take steps to reduce the burden on the health system, so as to ensure that those who need these services can have access to them.She said studies concerning the potential links between the use of tobacco products and Covid-19 are still being undertaken.
In addition, she said a report by the Human Sciences Research Council indicated that 88% of smokers were not able to buy cigarettes during level 5 lockdown, suggesting that the temporary ban was effective in reducing access to cigarettes and usage thereof. “In pursuit of these objectives, and after careful consideration and discussion, it was deemed necessary to continue the temporary ban on the sale of tobacco products under the level 4 lockdown.”
“Smokers have higher ICU admissions, higher need for ventilation and a higher mortality rate than non-smokers.”“In poorer communities, people are more likely to share cigarettes, hookah pipes, zols, skyf, and/or lighters and matchboxes. This can increase the risk of Covid-19 transmission in communal and social settings due to lack of social distancing and sharing infected saliva.”
dlaminizuma So when are you going to restrain food to the obese and pray for them, seeing that that is a covid risk? Government is a joke!
Just stop talking! You have caused enough harm to the citizens of South Africa. Turning law abiding citizens into criminals. You had no right to do that. 500 000 people signed a petition to have the smoking ban lifted and you ignored it. Unacceptable!
And I suppose that not ONE single person that she is associated with smokes. Mmmmm no further comment.
This fool should be locked up.
Well I understand what the Minister has said, however people still have the access of buying cigarettes in our townships. And my question is where are the cigarettes coming from and what measures are in place to regulate the selling of this cigarettes if indeed they are banned
Pathetic excuse to promote personal agendas
Anyone with half a brain cell can see this is just bull shit. She needs to be stopped before this country goes over the edge. We are forced to buy over priced poorly manufactured cigerettes from her family while the fiscus suffers. Are we that stupid in SA wakeupsa ndzmustfall
Well that is pretty dof. There is no way smoking while getting corona is any different from not smoking. Almost everyone who smokes has damaged lungs from before the ban, the ban has no effect on their lungs.
Your evidence is untested, tb hiv obesity and polution are just as detrimental but we don't see fastfood places and vehicles use being banned. You are unashamedly looking after your sons illicit supply chain. Ban smoking then not just the sales of tobacco you crook
What a load of bull! You know that people are still buying cigarette illegally! You know that it is not going to stop! You don't care about the health of the people! You are out to make money from the illegal sale of tobacco product! That is the reason you have banned tobacco!!!
The percentages she reports in the explanation for the tobacco ban is less than the 20% of smokers in South Africa. So actually Smokers have a better chance of not getting China virus
Not about smoking it's all about power and money another zuma
We are smoking anyway. So tell us the real issue behind this ban. It's definitely not health related.
Kak
I don't smoke Cigarettes I drink probably 4 times a year. I hate the smell of cigarettes. I hate seeing mothers/fathers smoke in the car either kids. But what hate more is corruption. The ban on cigarettes only benefits mazzoti and those who he owns. Taking a piss here
Gogo gonna lose this battle in court, embarrassingly!
Do what you see best wena Mama 😍
I have always maintained the ban has nothing to do with COVID-19 but the epidemic was merely an excuse for these ANC idiots to regulate behavior.
Idiotic NDZ I didnt vote ANC so you can curtail my civil liberties and dictate to me how I live my life? The problem is power has gone to your head in less than a year into your term and now you are punch drunk on power. Next elections you'll pay for this, I am not your subject.
You believe, yet the rest of the world and scientist’s, real doctors say something different.
3 words “INTELLECTUAL BANKRUPT DELINQUENT”
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How about the IEC wanting to postpone the 2021 Municipal elections due to 'corona'? 26 years into democracy and now they are trying to dismantle the system that they fought for themselves. SADictatorship
DlaminiZuma CyrilRamaphosa MYANC DrZweliMkhize please do everyone a favour and wake up. People are smoking anyway despite this ridiculous ban and will continue to do so. Be it illegal smokes or rooibos, your enforced 'logic' was just a pipe dream. Side note you're misinformed
I was at Krugersdorp police station yesterday. The one police officer was sitting outside the office smoking a cigarette in clear public view. Wish I had the balls to pull out my phone and record this shit. So tell me guys, how many people have been arrested for smoking?
Dr DlaminiZuma you explained a lot is enough. Move to another work. Keep zigar as it it mom. SABCNews I don't get it why fellow SA making loud noise were as thr box is written smoking is harmful and it can damage your lung. Soon smokers will be making a que in hospital
.. Really now we don't care about cigarettes or what your slay queen ugly grown gogo say. we are smoking anyway. Why are not talking about illegal foreigners taking South Africans jobs, they are the one breaking in schools PutSouthAfricaFirst
Anyone else notice what is wrong with this picture... DICTATORSHIP!!! It's not your choice Gogo your are a dinosaur, please retire and do us all a favor. You can not decide for people if they can or can not smoke. This is a civil rights violation. Stop this while you still can.
But people are still smoking in public so its useless
People want to take their chance with the ventilators, especially because the whole point of the lockdown was to prepare beds and ventilators. Now people want to sleep on those beds and be hooked on those ventilators. It's their right.
Protect human life? So you can torture them with starvation, depression and poverty. Release 19000 prisoners because this is for our safety So it's okay for me to die at a murderers hands but not from my own choices.!! Whooptifuckendoo
This ban is actually stupid. A Ban should be 1 week. Not go on for 2 months and allow the blackmarket to thrive. You ban anything and af ter some time it wil be replaced by something else better cheaper or low quality. Look at what happens in marriages
She protect people
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