Dear Dr. ,

I would like to know where you obtain information on the subject of tobacco use as you have absolutely no clue as proven by your "zol" speech and continued ruling about the tobacco ban. Furthermore, to base decisions on a survey taken asking traceable, identifyable citizens if they are doing something illegal is plain just stupid.

Stop adhering to myths and spreading false information as this is apparently against the law now.

Please get your facts straight about the use of tobacco products, the real health concerns of quitting nicotine addiction cold turkey, the illicit tobacco trade, the kids getting involved in the illegal sales of tobacco products. (Making the kids used to the income they are generating now by selling banned tobacco products and then legalising tobacco again will give these kids a gateway into selling drugs to maintain their lucrative business! )

Yes, smoking is bad for your health, but banning tobacco products is not the way to handle this problem. A national massive anti tobacco campaign ( think Hiv Aids campaign), support groups for quitters ( think AA) government funded nicotine supplements freely accessible for those who want to quit and helplines and free psychiatric treatment and prescriptions are necessary. To demean grownups by treating them like children, banning tobacco products without the above already in place, after legally selling them addictive products for all their lives and charging them sin tax on it is unjustifiable and beyond cruel.

Again a huge black line is drawn between the rich that can easily afford illegal tobacco products and the poor that cannot and are forced by their addiction to deprive their families of food to purchase black market tobacco. I wonder how much Sassa grants are currently paying for tobacco products? The poor, ask me, I am now forced to do this, are begging sigarette butts from the rich, rolling out the last bits of tobacco and then rolling the tobacco in newspaper and yes, using my spit to keep it all together to smoke it. Yes, there is so little of it and so many nicotine addicts around me that they will gladly kill me if I do not share! Thus:

Health hazard in covid 19 situation....1. Handling many different people's sigarette butts. 2. Smoking newspaper and the ink on it. 3. Using my spit on it or smoking someone that made the "zol" 's spit. 4. Sharing it.

This is the facts and not myths, misinformation or fiction!

To judge the ban on alcohol and the ban on tobacco products as one is just stupid. Each has its own outcome and related subjects and cannot be reviewed together.

Frustrated nicotine addicts in full withdrawal mode, locked up with their families, will cause a massive increase in domestic violence!

After all said and being part of a "caring" government with the interest and safety of all of it's citizens in this DEMOCRATIC country of ours at heart, do not be to proud to admit to the error of your desicions.

This tobacco ban is unjust, cruel and back firing in every possible way. Please be intelligent, mature and caring enough to admit this and LIFT THIS TOBACCO BAN!!