The health department is set to table a proposed bill to parliament to tighten legislature and regulations on tobacco and tobacco products.
The proposed amendments come amid an ongoing battle between the government and some of the big players in the tobacco industry.
Health Minister Dr Joe Phaahla will be tabling the Tobacco Products Control Bill to parliament which seeks to ban smoking indoors. Department of Health’s Tobacco Control Unit Lorato Mahura says, “This started almost four years ago, we were trying to amend an act of 1993 but after public comment over 50% of that act was amended then it becomes a new bill so we are sitting with a proposed bill that has been sent to parliament by our Minister of Health.
“What made it very difficult is that there are young professionals who enter schools and clinics smoking cigarettes and it looks very cool hence no one can believe that someone so educated can be smoking so who are we to tell them not to smoke,” Yusuf explains.
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