{"id":4465,"date":"2023-07-14T07:06:34","date_gmt":"2023-07-14T11:06:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/worldvapersalliance.com\/?p=4465"},"modified":"2023-07-14T08:42:51","modified_gmt":"2023-07-14T12:42:51","slug":"19-international-harm-reduction-consumer-groups-call-on-the-south-africa-government-to-stop-killing-harm-reduction-in-the-new-tobacco-control-bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldvapersalliance.com\/eu\/19-international-harm-reduction-consumer-groups-call-on-the-south-africa-government-to-stop-killing-harm-reduction-in-the-new-tobacco-control-bill\/","title":{"rendered":"19 Consumer Groups call on South Africa to stop killing harm reduction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Cape Town, 14 July 2023 \u2014 <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Representatives of the 19 international harm reduction groups called on the South African Parliament\u2019s Portfolio Committee on Health to embrace vaping and other alternative nicotine products as tools to combat smoking.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>The <\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.parliament.gov.za\/storage\/app\/media\/Bills\/2022\/B33_2022_Tobacco_Products_and_Electronic_Delivery_Systems_Control_Bill\/B33_2022_Tobacco_Products_and_Electronic_Delivery_Systems_Control_Bill.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><b>proposed text <\/b><\/a><b>of the Tobacco Products and Electronic Delivery Systems Control Bill intends to regulate alternative nicotine products and combustible products in the same manner <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">with provisions covering extra restrictions on sale and manufacturing of tobacco and nicotine products, a ban on advertising for tobacco heating and vaping products, a ban on public use of tobacco heating and vaping products, a power of the Minister to impose flavour bans for tobacco heating and vaping products and others.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cSmoking is a global problem and needs to be addressed urgently and accordingly. Only in South Africa, <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/gsthr.org\/countries\/profile\/zaf\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">42,181 people die every year <\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">due to tobacco smoking. Yet, the provisions offered by the South African government include several provisions which will halt the progress that South Africa has made in combating the smoking epidemic, and will thus endanger lives of all those who have successfully quit smoking due to wide availability of alternative nicotine products.\u201d <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">the organisations stated in the submission.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>The organisations argue for a risk-based regulation, claiming that <\/b><b><i>\u201cfor the purposes of the legislation, smoking and vaping should be clearly distinguished and regulated in separate provisions where vaping is acknowledged as a smoking-reduction tool.\u201d<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cNicotine products should be regulated according to their risk profile. We have seen many examples where all-out bans on alternative products have only produced the opposite results, bringing about detrimental effects to public health. It is time our officials acknowledged that vaping is a tool to combat the smoking epidemic, and should not be treated the same way,\u201d <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">saying director of the World Vapers\u2019 Alliance, one of the signatories to the submission, Michael Landl.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cThis Bill gives the Minister of Health the authority to regulate on any topic that he thinks necessary to protect the public. The Minister of Health will have the authority to select who can sell vape products, as well as where and when they can be sold. Considering the unlawful ban on tobacco and vape sales during the Covid-lockdown in 2020, such significant power granted to a single Minister seems excessive.\u201d <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">says Kurt Yeo, co-founder of the South African organisation, Vaping Saved My Life.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The response of the 19 organisations to the Tobacco Products and Electronic Delivery Systems Control Bill can be found <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/worldvapersalliance.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/SA-Consultation-Submission-WVA.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><b>here<\/b><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>The consultation is open for public submissions until 4 August 2023.<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> A South-Africa based organisation, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Vaping Saved My Life<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, offers a road-map to the consulation\u2019s submission at <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/vsml.co.za\/submission-bill-2022\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">https:\/\/vsml.co.za\/submission-bill-2022\/<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cape Town, 14 July 2023 \u2014 Representatives of the 19 international harm reduction groups called on the South African Parliament\u2019s Portfolio Committee on Health to embrace vaping and other alternative nicotine products as tools to combat smoking.\u00a0 The proposed text of the Tobacco Products and Electronic Delivery Systems Control Bill intends to regulate alternative nicotine 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