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How to end tobacco use for good: What SA's Covid-19 tobacco ban has taught us


Local tobacco companies’ market share quadrupled during the country’s temporary sales ban in 2020, overtaking Big Tobacco’s pre-ban near-monopoly on South Africa’s tobacco industry.
The sales ban did cause people to smoke less and prevented more than 2 000 tobacco-related deaths, but at the expense of progress made to curb illicit trade in the country by the South African Revenue Service.
Hiking excise taxes would probably have had the same results and the taxman would not have lost R5.8-billion.
Local tobacco companies were coining it during South Africa’s tobacco sales ban - their share of local sales quadrupled during the temporary ban put in place in 2020, shows an analysis by researchers at the University of Cape Town’s Research Unit on the Economics of Excisable Products, REEP. ....

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State of the cigarette market after the ban


Dec 11, 2020
Cigarette prices have decreased sharply from their highly inflated levels during the sales ban, but are substantially higher than their pre-lockdown levels.
The average retail price of cigarette brands produced by the multinationals is nearly 5% higher than before the sales ban, while the average retail price produced by the local manufacturers is 30% higher.
These are some of the findings of a recent study, conducted by the Research Unit on the Economics of Excisable Products (REEP), based at the University of Cape Town (UCT). The research was based on an online survey of nearly 4 000 people, conducted in September 2020. Respondents to the survey had been participants in a previous REEP survey, and were contacted with their consent through social media and Moya, a data-free messaging platform. ....

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