South Africans have expressed mixed reactions to the country’s Tobacco Products and Electronic Delivery Systems Control Bill, which aims to strengthen the law in line with the World Health Organization’s Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (WHO FCTC) and would create many new rules affecting e-cigarettes.
The bill was introduced in Parliament in December 2022, and is still in its early stages, but South Africa’s parliamentary portfolio committee on health has been conducting nationwide public hearings on it.