Our researcher was able to simply walk in off the street as an unknown customer and purchase cigarettes at R20.00 or below in 42 of the 43 outlets visited over the course of six days across all four cities, recording every buy on video Some cartons were being sold at barely a third of the price necessary to cover tax alone. FURIOUS REACTIONS The government placed a ban on all cigarette sales on March 27, 2020 to help slow the spread of Covid-19, but a study by University of Cape Towns Research Unit on the Economics of Excisable Products (REEP) found that at the height of the ban, 93% of smokers were able to buy on the black market
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