‘I can assure you after we’ve been out of level 3, I don’t see the ban on the sale of cigarettes continuing,’ said Minister in the Presidency Jackson Mthembu.

Minister in the Presidency Jackson Mthembu on Wednesday assured South Africans that the ban on the sale of cigarettes was only for level 3 lockdown, telling Eyewitness News that he did not see it continuing beyond that level.

Results of two Human Sciences Research Council online surveys were used in the document to explain that 88% of people were unable to access cigarettes during the lockdown, “suggesting that the ban was successful”.

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