Lax regulations have caused rising use among youth with forecast lethal results
The murky political history of the cigarette offers a vantage point to locate current debates on the cigarette sale ban in SA under lockdown. It offers the opportunity to dispassionately unpack the puritanical, moral, industrial protectionist and scientific arguments that have been made by stakeholders who have sought to control the national Covid-19 narrative.
The Covid-19 narrative is a subtext of bigger interactions involving cigarette companies, the state, public health experts, citizens, advertising executives, smokers and non-smokers, with the very history of the cigarette as a consumer product enmeshed in the complex interactions between these roleplayers. It is also strongly linked to political endorsements.
This criminal network has captured political institutions and corrupted state officials so much that despite the ban on cigarette sales there is a thriving black market
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