Ngwedane

Ban the damn thing, you must also do the same with alcohol. When somoene is drinking Johnny Blue will look the same the one drinking Mellow Wood, that will be interesting.......
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iPhone4

So you'll buy ciggies thinking you buying Camel and only find later that you bought boxer? Tjo hhayi no. Ngwedane I agree on the alcohol so people will stop bragging as well
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candilious

Tsek its my lungs i do it my way ...........I am NO puppet to be told what to do or how to do it.

I shall smoke ,drink & eat till my end days
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Ngwedane

iPhone4
People will stop buying expensive alcohol for nothing waisting their childrens money on unnecessary things.
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MommaC

The hospitals are a train smash, the child mortality is cringe worthy, there are hong fong doctors all over the place ...... and Doc Aaron is fussing over marketing material?
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Bizzabo

Ngwedane
Ban the damn thing, you must also do the same with alcohol. When somoene is drinking Johnny Blue will look the same the one drinking Mellow Wood, that will be interesting.......
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you talk nonsense wena, not wih alcohol!!! lol

Seconded on tobacco though, I just dont understand why people want to blow smoke, stain their gums and nails. breath smell is not the best either!
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Bizzabo

MommaC
The hospitals are a train smash, the child mortality is cringe worthy, there are hong fong doctors all over the place ...... and Doc Aaron is fussing over marketing material?
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you are a smoker right? you never complained when he said he wanted to reduce salt addition to food, in fact if I can recall well you were supportive.

this is one of the few ministers doing real work
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lindsay

halleluya while they are at it make it a crime to smoke anywhere even at home and it must carry a heavy sentence its so tirring to pass by some smoking preek poluting the air we breathe.
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Chichi7

When is africa going to do things according to their needs rather than always doing what others do? When are we going to trust our own initiatives and decision making?
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lindsay

Youi forgot to say in their own personal cars with kids inside
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Danielrjvvuren

This is taking it too far. Really now. Stop trying to blame cigarette companies for inducing smoking, I started smoking because I wanted to be naughty not because some advert told me to do so. I'm an ex smoker been smoking for 10 years and finally gave it up, but we can not afford to push the boundaries so much. Its just not cricket.
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MommaC

Bizzabo

Yes, I am a smoker and no, I wasn't very supportive.

Reducing salt and sugar is senseless in a country where nutritional labels are only read by the 'posh' housewives and the average person just ADDS salt or sugar according to their taste. Nobody is going to prevent Sophie from putting a weeks worth of salt into her afternoon pap every day

My comment on the salt was that the bakers were not complaining due to process (salt is a yeast retardant) but rather due to marketing - bread without salt in it tastes like cardboard.
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Solm

how will this help really?Will this stop people from smoking?
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Bizzabo

MommaC

Being exposed to hypertenson due to both my parents being sufferers, I supported him. I'd rather eat cardboard tasting bread than increase my chances of suffering from HBP.

As for smoking, with all due respect I dont understand why you people smoke. it just does not make sense to me. There is a lot of damage it does to the human body than you can compare with alcohol ( taken in moderation of course)....I enjoy my sigle malt by the way
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Danielrjvvuren

Bizzabo
Why do you like bread without salt, we do not understand that, but smoking is an addiction. Do you think people snort cocaine or inject heroin into their system because it is pleasant? People smoke because they do. You will not know because you do not smoke, and I applaud you for the fact that you do not, but do not begrudge those who do simply because you do not understand.
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Solm
how will this help really?Will this stop people from smoking?
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It will discourage potential smokers.Smoking has been advertised to be the coolest thing that one can engage in for years.


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Danielrjvvuren

Bizzabo
Again I smoked because of my own choice not because I was told to by the TV. Not everyone bends to marketing's will.
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Danielrjvvuren

I feel it is a waste of money( number of smoke breaks per day) when i go to a club or a bar I am made to be a passive smoker ( potential cancer for me). there is just no benefit in smoking

Banning it completely would have been great.
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Danielrjvvuren

Bizzabo
Its the ignorant way of going about it even I dare say the apartheid view of something. We do not like it so ban it. Doesn't work like that my friend. Money talks and smoking generates way to much income.
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MommaC

Bizzabo

You can get low sodium bread now.
Genetically, all people of Africa are susceptible to high blood pressure and diabetes. Salt is only ONE factor in it all, You may want to try green tea, include avos in your diet and cut out any mutton - works like a dream for high blood pressure as well as cholesterol.

Who wants to live for ever? I am not interested in lying in bed one day dying of nothing. As long as it is my lungs that I am turning into a well tarred highway, it really isn't anyone else's problem. ..... I'm more of a blended scotch malt person myself - don't like the very peaty back taste.
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Danielrjvvuren

MommaC
but if you want to stop try champix hey. I can not believe I am not smoking. 8 months now. So happy, but somedays miss smoking.
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MommaC

Danielrjvvuren

Na. Don't want to :-P

I have one of those electronic cigarettes which I smoke mainly. They are a bit hard to get used to and the real deal is needed after a meal or with a drink but, for at my desk, the 'personal inhaler' works just great
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Danielrjvvuren

I know, it genertes so much money hence the counterfeit that is flooding the market. banning it will not happen in a thousand years.If I were to be minister for a month closer to budget time, I was going to advise Pravin to raise the tobacco sin tax by 40%.
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Popeye

That’s why I spliff ganja…there are no rules from ministers.
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Bizzabo

MommaC

Gosh i love my mutton( stew, chops and leg)!! i am cycling now and again, it helps...so they say

blended is not real schotch( chivas and the rest) I am more on the dich and lievet taste.
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MommaC

Bizzabo

If you raised the tobacco tax by 4%, you would be haled as a saint by the Somalians. They already make a happy profit from the current over pricing.

..... and don't forget, single malt will be sin taxed too :)
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Tabza325is

I say ban it all the same, tobacco, Alcohol, Zolo and all stimulant substances ban them all, stop being hypocrites acting like tobacco is the only health harming substance, alcohol is affect people more than tobacco, you don't see people smoking tobacco and becoming more violent or out of charactor compared to alcohol, infact alcohol is the biggest culprite in SA.
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Danielrjvvuren

Bizzabo
ANd smokers will gladly pay it. It is the same concept as why are you filling your car with petrol? Why not some radical bio fuel? We are as hooked on fuel as smokers to cigarettes. Your argumentation is based on feelings and not facts. A non smoker will always want to ban smoking a smoker always will defend it me a non smoker can not say no to smoking as it will be hypocritical of me. Think friend think!
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MommaC

Bizzabo

Unfortunately, mutton is the worst meat of all. The fat on other meat is on the outside and can be removed but mutton fat is inside the muscle so it can't be. A little bit of what you fancy is never bad for you but just keep in mind that moderation is key.

Exercise is great for most of what ails you. Again, moderation is key as your blood pressure (along with your heart rate) rises during exercise so, if you do have very high blood pressure, it isn't a healthy idea. If you don't have high blood pressure then it will help to prevent you from getting high blood pressure. Being overweight also pushes up your blood pressure so exercise is key for prevention.

I suffer from the opposite. I have low blood pressure. It means that I will probably live longer but the dizzies from standing up sometimes gets a bit irritating
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Bizzabo

Nahh! Most people get to drink on weekends and the majority of them are moderate. smoking daily!!
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Bizzabo

MommaC
It means that I will probably live longer

what do you mean you will live longer? there is medication for Hypertension mos. If mine gets chronic i will take medication.
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Senyobinyobi

DR MOtsoaledi should be focusing on improving the standards of our hospitals and service delivery. We smoke our own money and we dont get it from corrupt government officials and the ANC. Or maybe tobbacco producers should approach him with a bribe.
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MommaC

Bizzabo

Fact of life. Statistically, people with naturally low blood pressure outlive those with normal or high blood pressure. No idea why but we do.
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legendarybenedictoholic

ban the damn thing! spare our friends. maybe when there is no more brand names they will feel bored and give up.
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Popeye
That’s why I spliff ganja…there are no rules from ministers.
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That thing will get you m@d, if you not already.
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Bizzabo
Ngwedane
Ban the damn thing, you must also do the same with alcohol. When somoene is drinking Johnny Blue will look the same the one drinking Mellow Wood, that will be interesting.......
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you talk nonsense wena, not wih alcohol!!! lol

Seconded on tobacco though, I just dont understand why people want to blow smoke, stain their gums and nails. breath smell is not the best either!
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Alcohol is not good but i drink it bro, if they can do that I will quit drinking immediately otherwise i will end up drinking Zamalek without noticing it.
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BELO

why am i blocked
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BELO

For those of you calling for a total ban, forget it. The government makes billions per year on taxes from tobacco.
If they should ban it totaly, about 15,000 people will lose their jobs.
Government cant afford that to happen
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jabutt

Dear doctor, please can you get rid of steveyson menthol, its the only one that i smoke and i really need help quitting it.
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MommaC

BELO

The figure will be closer to 45,000 jobs as we have packaging plants in SA and they will close down if a total ban is imposed. That would affect everything from paper to printing and labour to exports. The cigarette companies have threatened to close up shop and move before and it isn't like they don't have other countries crying for their patronage.
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Mosquer

MommaC
The hospitals are a train smash, the child mortality is cringe worthy, there are hong fong doctors all over the place ...... and Doc Aaron is fussing over marketing material?
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Are you smoking?
Oh yes! Women from WC!!!
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MommaC

Mosquer

Hey there Mosque Man, How's our favourite Imam doing today?

You should try tobacco instead of the stuff you are smoking now and then maybe your geography knowledge wouldn't get so confused. That stuff is going to break your brain dude
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BELO

MommaC,

you are right, I just qouted the farming employment. If you think of all the external components such as printing, packaging, transport and distribution wholesalers the figure could touch 100,000
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MommaC

BELO

Part of that is very scary as they literally hold the country to ransom but luckily they don't flex their muscles very often and only when left with no alternative (unlike Cosatu) so it is a fine line that needs to be taken here.
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Papage

Yes they must do the same with alcohol, alcohol is the deadly drug that destroy people left and right, kids and man
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Popeye

Ngwedane
That thing will get you m@d, if you not already.
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No I'm not mad...you don’t understand young man…the international herb is healthy, clean and cure many disease such as TB, Asthma, Obesity etc…ask your health minister why he wants to implement this law to tobacco.
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Tsek

Ngwedane
Ban the damn thing, you must also do the same with alcohol. When somoene is drinking Johnny Blue will look the same the one drinking Mellow Wood, that will be interesting.......
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with u 110%
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Leruoooooo

smoking is a metter of choice............they must leave us alone.
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defacto69

Agreed - Ban alcohol as well, it causes 10 times more harm than smoking
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Nyongoyamavenda

but they must not forget that smoking is a choice and a democratic right just like to be a gay,and that cigarette employ hundreds of people wich might result to some losing their job
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manu.menne

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