Health exoerts are lookinv to introduce more smoking restrictions and regulate e-cigarettes 🧖♂️ eCigarettes Vaping
This is according to health experts who've convened under the banner"Protect our Next".It comes as the Control of Tobacco Products and Electronic Delivery Systems Bill has been approved by cabinet for submission to Parliament.Public Health Policy and Development Consultant Zanele Mthembu says the Tobacco Products Control Act of 1993 has only been amended thrice.
“In the ‘90s, when the initial Act was amended, it reduced to about 25%, so it then it reduced further to 18%. “Today, as we speak the prevalence of tobacco, of smoking, is back up to 29%. The delays that have taken place in adoption this deal has led to the industry benefitting by doing as they please. Infringing the law, exploiting the loopholes.”
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