We are sharing cigarettes more than ever under tobacco ban - UCT expert

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Professor Corné van Walbeek, director of the research unit of the economics of excisable products at the University of Cape Town, has been talking to smokers about South Africa's lockdown ban on cigarette sales. He says there's been a huge increase in the intensity of sharing of cigarettes - even though the government's ostensible reason for the ban was to prevent this. He also predicts that when the sales ban is lifted, the market is going to be in complete chaos. - Editor Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
21 Jul 2020 2PM English South Africa Investing · Business News

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