She added that 74.4% of respondents said they were exposed to some or other form of smoke in places of public gathering, like pubs, bars and restaurants, and 88.4% of respondents believed South Africa needed an all-out ban of smoking in work places, especially indoors. What you see is, these new products are targeting the youth,” Egbe said. If you have the highest prevalence of cigarette consumption among people aged 45 to 64, you should see the rise among that age group in these alternatives. But they are merely switching addictions. “We hear the industry say that their products help wean smokers off cigarettes. Among emerging products, hookah had a 3.1% prevalence while e-cigarettes had a 2.2% prevalence, the highest among young consumers, she said. GATS-SA specialist scientist Dr Catherine Egbe said there was a 23.9% prevalence of manufactured cigarette consumption countrywide. GATS-SA conducted its research by surveying 6,311 South Africans, aged 15 and older, with a response rate of 92%. “We are in this situation because we don’t have good laws,” said Mahura, expressing optimism that the measures contained in the Bill would curb smoking and the use of e-cigarettes. The GATS-SA survey found 41.7% of men and 17.9% of women used tobacco products, with an overall adult prevalence of 30.3%. SA’s smoking rates dropped between 19, from 32% to 18%, but have risen since 2016 as the government failed to keep pace with the tobacco industry’s tactics, Mahura said. Lorato Mahura from the Health Department’s health promotion unit has issued an apology “to the people of South Africa”, saying the failure to update anti-smoking laws and the lack of regulation for new-generation products, including vapes, had caused harm and resulted in damage, reports News24. The new Bill proposes a complete ban on smoking in public places, introduces plain packaging, regulates e-cigarettes, prohibits point-of-sale advertising and scraps vending machine sales. The 2008 Tobacco Products Control Amendment Act currently in force has not been updated in more than a decade and has no measures for regulating new-generation products like vapes, reports Business Day. It will appear in Parliament later this year, say Department of Health officials. The Bill was introduced in 2013 but is listed as a 2018 Bill because it was renamed and updated with restrictions on tobacco product alternatives. The Bill wants to impose regulations on alternatives to combustible cigarettes like vaping products and heating systems, including a ban on marketing, vending machines and public use indoors or outdoors.Īnti-tobacco organisations have vowed to support the Bill and any other measures introduced by the government, to make it as hard as possible for people to access tobacco alternatives. The survey comes as the government and South Africans consider the Control of Tobacco and Electronic Delivery Systems Bill. This was one of the findings of the 2021 Global Adult Tobacco Survey in South Africa (GATS-SA) presented at at a seminar hosted by the South African Medical Research Council (SAMRC) last week, reports News24. Thanks for visiting our home.Cigarette alternatives, like vaping, are doing the opposite of what they’re supposed to do: instead of weaning existing smokers off tobacco, they are actually wooing young South African consumers. Reducing the size of the bed to this day bed size, gives us a pretty big play area. As we move back to the back room here, this was a queen-sized bed. We've got a fridge, freezer, three-burner stove top, and then a microwave, slash, convection oven. I think we're at 32 or 33 different bottle caps in there right now. Each one of these bottle caps is actually a state that we've been to. So here we are in our kitchen, dining, and living area. Here, we've got an automatic sunshade to provide some additional shade on hot days like this. So some features on the outside of the Airstream, we kind of got the classic, aluminum look. We settled on moving into an RV because we felt like it was the right way for us to explore the United States, which we really hadn't done a lot of. And fortunately, it's managed to stay big enough for us to kind of survive, even with two little kids in here. Before we moved in, we found out we were gonna be a family of three. We purchased it actually as a family of two. So here's our Airstream International Signature. Jamie and Jerry took their growing family on the road Video Transcript
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