{"id":230041,"date":"2018-03-07T13:46:16","date_gmt":"2018-03-07T11:46:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=230041"},"modified":"2018-03-07T13:50:38","modified_gmt":"2018-03-07T11:50:38","slug":"what-to-expect-from-sas-new-smoking-laws","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/lifestyle\/230041\/what-to-expect-from-sas-new-smoking-laws\/","title":{"rendered":"What to expect from new smoking laws in South Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New proposals for changes to South Africa&#8217;s smoking laws will be presented within the next two weeks, according to department of health director-general, Precious Matsoso.<\/p>\n<p>Matsoso was speaking to <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.iol.co.za\/news\/south-africa\/western-cape\/new-sa-smoking-laws-in-two-weeks-13640266\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">IOL<\/a> <\/strong>on the sidelines of the World Conference on Tobacco or Health on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Health Minister, Aaron Motsoaledi\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/business\/210419\/5-big-changes-on-the-cards-under-south-africas-new-smoking-laws-in-2018\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><b>previously outlined<\/b><\/a>\u00a0the expected changes to the laws when he presented the Tobacco Products Control Amendment Act in 2017, which he said would be submitted to cabinet for approval early in 2018.<\/p>\n<p>The regulations plan to ban smoking in all public spaces, remove branding from cigarettes packs and control electronic cigarettes.<\/p>\n<p>The proposals, first mooted in 2015, have garnered significant public interest as they propose a number of strict new smoking laws, including:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A zero-tolerance policy on in-door smoking in public places (including the removal of designated smoking areas in restaurants);<\/li>\n<li>A ban on outdoor smoking in public places;<\/li>\n<li>When smoking outside, smokers must be at least 10 metres away from public entrances;<\/li>\n<li>The removal of all signage on cigarette packaging aside from the brand name and warning stickers;<\/li>\n<li>Cigarettes may no longer be publicly displayed by retailers.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>While the new proposals have been praised by some, they are also likely to be met with steep resistance \u2013 especially in the multi-billion rand business sector.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Read:<a href=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/lifestyle\/228829\/new-legal-drinking-age-for-south-africa-is-one-step-closer\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u00a0New legal drinking age for South Africa is one step closer<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New proposals for changes to South Africa&#8217;s smoking laws will be presented within the next two weeks, according to the department of health.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":230075,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9876],"tags":[26],"class_list":["post-230041","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lifestyle","tag-headline"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230041","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=230041"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230041\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":230083,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230041\/revisions\/230083"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/230075"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=230041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=230041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=230041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}