The Portfolio Committee on Health turned its attention on Wednesday to the wording of the Tobacco Products and Electronic Delivery Systems Control Bill’s preamble and definitions.
The debate over South Africa’s proposed new tobacco control law has entered its most detailed phase, with MPs now picking apart the Bill clause by clause and questioning how its provisions will work in practice.
The Portfolio Committee on Health turned its attention on Wednesday to the wording of the Tobacco Products and Electronic Delivery Systems Control Bill’s preamble and definitions.
Smokers’ rights, illicit trade and the regulation of newer nicotine products were among the issues coming under scrutiny.
MK Party MP Moshome Motubatse called for the reference to a “precautionary approach” to the regulation of electronic nicotine delivery systems and electronic non-nicotine delivery systems to be removed.
