New smoking laws coming to South Africa threaten to shut down specialist shops.
The owner of a 230-year-old tobacco shop in South Africa says that new smoking laws making their way through parliament will threaten operations and force many shops just like it to go out of business.
The laws will also regulate the emerging electronic cigarette market, which has, until now, operated in a grey area in law. Under the proposed laws, no form of advertising for tobacco products can exist. While this has been the case in media and sponsorships for several years already, the new bill kicks this up a notch.
“As a specialist tobacco retailer, I can’t imagine what my store will look like if I can’t display any of the products that I sell. At the very least, the government should exempt specialist tobacconists who don’t sell products to anyone younger than 18. that enter our stores only do so to buy tobacco products.”
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