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https://vsml.co.za/vsml-petition/ THE SOUTH AFRICAN GOVERNMENT WANTS TO TREAT VAPERS THE SAME AS SMOKERS, EVEN THOUGH EVIDENCE SHOWS VAPING IS FAR LESS HARMFUL AND HELPS PEOPLE TO STOP SMOKING. THE GOVERNMENT WANTS TO TAKE AWAY YOUR FREEDOM TO VAPE IN PUBLIC PLACES AND DEPRIVE YOU OF THE...

VSML identified South Africans - all of whom were smokers with a desire to quit but were unable to do so - as potential candidates to take part in a 90-day challenge that would see smokers switching to vaping. The case study can be found here: https://vsml.co.za/social-experiment-... Petition...

KNOW THE BILL! All aspects of the package labels will be prescribed by the Minister of Health. This would include health warnings and graphic warnings. Vaping is Not Smoking! STOP the bill, sign the petition: https://vsmlpetition.web.app/...

KNOW THE BILL! Any communication that could be deemed as promoting and advertising a vape product will be prohibited. Vaping is Not Smoking! STOP the bill, sign the petition: https://vsmlpetition.web.app/...

KNOW THE BILL! All online sales of vaping related products will be prohibited. This would include websites; social media; forums; chat groups or instant messaging services. Vaping is Not Smoking! STOP the bill, sign the petition: https://vsmlpetition.web.app/...

KNOW THE BILL! All vaping products will be removed from display, and all promotional material will be prohibited too. Your right to choose will be removed. Vaping is Not Smoking! STOP the bill, sign the petition: https://vsmlpetition.web.app/...

The Minister of Health will be given the authority to ban vaping in almost all areas if the 2018 Proposed Control of Tobacco and Electronic Delivery Systems is passed. Vaping is not Smoking! STOP the bill, sign the petition: https://vsmlpetition.web.app/...

To impose such a tax now is tantamount to depriving South African smokers and vapers of an opportunity to collectively define the place of ENDS, with the government, in the fight to reduce smoking. Government must be sensible; tobacco harm reduction is a sensible strategy to reduce harm to...

The new deadline for comments has been set for 7 February 2022. Comments can be sent via email to Vaping_tax@treasury.gov.za Please note that during last week we noted that this email address was failing. Communication was sent to National Treasury. If you experience any issues regarding mail...

The e-liquid tax discussion document released by South Africa National Treasury on 15 December 2021 recommends a hybrid tax model. The model includes a volume portion (price per ml) and a nicotine portion (price per mg of nicotine), making ALL e-liquids taxable. It is proposed that total excise...

New discussion paper launched 15 Dec 2021. Close of comments 25 Jan 2022. Link to document: http://www.treasury.gov.za/comm_media/press/2021/TaxPolicyDiscussion/Default.aspx

Dear VSML friends, We have received communication from the South African Department of Health (DOH) inviting stakeholders to participate in virtual consultation on the Draft Bill on the Control of Tobacco Products and Electronic Delivery Systems on the 30th March 2021 (letter attached), Some of...

https://insidesources.com/to-address-youth-e-cigarette-use-we-must-rely-on-data/?fbclid=IwAR0ORkjLSg0fEKvQx69g1tWS5vku0C0BfS9xDZi6SXts1ACoKD5jIHh0Vhc Posted to Politics March 22, 2021 by Lindsey Stroud In 2018, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and then-Surgeon General Jerome Adams...

https://vsml.co.za/2021-vapers-survey/ The survey should take no longer than 2 minutes to complete. All the information given will be treated in strict confidence and used for statistical purposes only. Target 4000, we can do this!

Demistify Vaping. A must watch. Thank your Yorkshire Cancer Research for putting this out there. Please watch; share and tag local news, they need to know they are complicit in spreading harmful messages; creating confusion and ultimately preventing smokers from obtaining a smoke free life.

These reports keep getting airtime and will be presented to the cabinet as further evidence that EVPs are no different from traditional tobacco.

The former American Cancer Society’s Vice President for Tobacco Control and founding Director of ACS’s Center for Tobacco Control drafted the attached letter. Highlights: "But I think the national tobacco control community in the U.S., my community, is now letting down tens of millions of...

Every year we put together a survey to get valuable information on the vaping landscape in South Africa. The survey should take no longer than 2 minutes to complete. All the information given will be treated in strict confidence and used for statistical purposes only. Please help us share and...