Lift the ban of selling tobacco in South Africa during lockdown

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#402

It is my right to smoke

Annette De Beer (Johannesburg, 2020-04-07)

#404

I am a smoker

Yolandi Tesner (Boksburg, 2020-04-07)

#407

I smoke

Angela O'Neill (Boksburg, 2020-04-07)

#408

It is one of my rights.

Phillip Skelton (Kempton Park, 2020-04-07)

#410

Im a smoker myself

Tanja Nel (Germiston, 2020-04-07)

#412

Please lift the cigarette ban, south africa is the only country that has the cigarette ban, it causes aggresivness, increases crime and domestic violence, it has a calming effect on people who uses tobacco products.

Thomas Digovich (Boksburg, 2020-04-07)

#413

I smoke and I get violent when I dont have sigarettes

Francois Van Blerk (Pretoria, 2020-04-07)

#415

I'm a Smoker as well and know the risk of not going without a sigaret...

Tiaan Halgryn (Pretoria, 2020-04-07)

#417

Not enough warning was given that stocks would be removed from shelves. I was unable to stock up and am now in a bad way, experiencing extreme anxiety, anguish and physical discomfort. I have smoked for forty years, I need my smokes!!! Just lift the stupid ban!!

Gregory Hart (Cape Town, 2020-04-07)

#419

i am a smoker and i don't see what it has to do eith corona

anna badenhorst (dalpark brakpan, 2020-04-07)

#420

It's a bullshit reason....

Linda Ford (Johannesburg, 2020-04-07)

#422

Please lift the cigarette ban. SA is the only country that has the cigarette ban. Lesson braking into shops, aggressiveness, short tempered people. and riots.it's really unbearable

Muriel Digovich (Boksburg, 2020-04-07)

#426

I smoke

Gwen Schoeman (Pretoria, 2020-04-07)

#428

I'm signing as I'm a smoker it relieves daily stresses. It will also avoid anyone to buy illegal cigarettes.

Jo-Hanna Nieuwoudt-Carney (Johannesburg, 2020-04-07)

#430

I dont see why it was ban in the first place.

Natashia Kaber (Pretoria, 2020-04-07)

#433

I stopped smoking years ago, but I fail to see the reason for the ban in the first place. For some people, cigarettes are essential.

Derek West (Boksburg, 2020-04-07)

#442

I have smoker friends and family and don’t see the logic behind this restriction in sales

Tracy Wiese (Durbanville, 2020-04-07)

#443

I'm a smoker and if people smoke and they can't get then the can be a danger

Mirynda Massey (Walkerville, 2020-04-07)

#444

I'm am a smoker and doesn't cause any person physical harm by smoking outdoors

Abraham Viljoen (Tswane, 2020-04-07)

#446

I am a smoker and are curently working as essential services. Sterrssed out as I working frontline. My smoking helps me coping

Jackie Beukes (Germiston, 2020-04-07)

#451

I dont smoke but my husband does. It is not a crime to smoke i will prefer smoking over DRINKING

Luzaan Kruger (Gauteng, 2020-04-07)

#452

I smoke

Kerry Grant Peo (Roodepoort, 2020-04-07)

#456

Obviously unconstitutional

Pieter Mynhardt (Cape town, 2020-04-07)

#458

I’m signing because smoking has not caused violence or rape or murder, not has it caused me to break lockdown. It is my right to smoke in my own home

Colleen Barnes (Broederstroom, 2020-04-07)

#460

I would like cigarettes to be sold

Tash Eckardt (Johannesburg, 2020-04-07)

#463

Please lift the ban of sigarettes

Kyle Westraad (Boksburg, 2020-04-07)

#465

Sigarette hou ons kalm

Michelle Macdougal (Gordonsbay, 2020-04-07)

#471

i feel that we have far worse things to worry about than

Clifford Smith (Roodepoort, 2020-04-07)

#477

Because smoking lowers stress levels by calming your body

Candan Swift (Gauteng, 2020-04-07)

#479

This is ridiculous, plus SARS is losing revenue and illegal cigarettes are dangerous for our health!

Corne Viljoen (Edenvale, 2020-04-07)

#485

I have a right to buy smokes. I pay my taxes

Gerhard De Kock (Cape Town, 2020-04-07)

#488

I am a smoker myself and my stock running low as I only heard the day before the ban 6 o clock and by then all shops were sold out

Joze Smith (Boksburg, 2020-04-07)

#489

No need to add more stress to people who are smokers and live on their own.

Gayle Lazley (Johannesburg, 2020-04-07)

#492

There is no harm in smoking and people will go crazy if they can't get their smokes, they can't do anything else !!!!!

Azalia Van Niekerk (Dalview, 2020-04-07)

#493

It's totally ridiculous that you can have a full taxi spreading the virus but not smoke in the comfort of your own home

Debbie Botha (Gauteng, 2020-04-07)

#504

Please Mr President,
Give these folks their cigarettes back, so that their fokus is back on using spell check. .

Nakita Leigh (strand, 2020-04-07)

#505

I am a smoker and feel that it is ridiculous to not be able to buy smokes!!!!

Tracy Binns (Cape Town, 2020-04-07)

#509

I am a smoker.

Jolandi Coetzee (Pretoria, 2020-04-07)

#512

I am a smoker and smoking does not make my life unmanageable

Jessica Grundlingh (Pretoria, 2020-04-07)

#514

I'm a smoker

Terrence Damster (Cape Town, 2020-04-07)

#515

I am a smoker and do believe that this is very unfair.
This is my stress relief.

Mercy Hoffman (Springs, 2020-04-07)

#516

I'm signing because it's going to cause more trouble like people looting places or trade illegally.

Salome Bester (Pretoria, 2020-04-07)

#525

I'm a smoker and I must be able to buy my cigarettes in order to get through this lockdown

Gavin Bentley (Gauteng, 2020-04-07)

#531

This is an addiction, withdrawal simptoms could be fatal, causing heart attacks for long term smokers, this could possibly kill more than the virus , because there are alot of users of this substance

Liam Van Niekerk (Gauteng, 2020-04-07)

#537

Ive been smoking for 23years.its my stress releiver.

Leo Kalicharan (Johannesburg, 2020-04-07)

#541

Basic human right that im denied making my own choice to smoke or not.

Richard Crosson (Pretoria, 2020-04-07)

#545

I need to buy smokes urgently

Nardus VD Merwe (Nelspruit, 2020-04-07)

#548

It's a ridiculous ban

Leilani Kermis (Benoni, 2020-04-07)

#550

I am a tax payer and Sigarettes dont kill people as much as the crime on SA. concentrate on real crime please. shops even refuse non essential stuff in shops. It is absurd. cant even buy a toy for a child. They refuse us. only food. It is redicilus

willie beukes (pretoria, 2020-04-07)

#553

I am a smoker.

Christiaan Ohlsen (Whiteriver, 2020-04-07)

#554

The economy needs the employment and taxes that generate from the tobacco industry

Gene Joubert (Johannesburg, 2020-04-07)

#561

Stress relief

Dave Knapp (Nelspruit, 2020-04-07)

#565

Because this is a direct violation of peoples' rights. I am not a smoker but this is the worst time imaginable to ban the buying of cigarettes. No other country does this.

Glynis Compton (Knysna, 2020-04-07)

#566

I'm signing because i am a smoker and it is extremely stressful being a prisoner in your own home without the 1 thing that will calm you...

Lauren Olivier (Boksburg, 2020-04-07)

#567

It is our stress relief

Stefanie Mans (Lichtenburg, 2020-04-07)

#568

Banning cigarettes contributes to organized crime and creates illegal distribution channels that can also be used to ferry other drugs

Adrian Engelbrecht (Cape Town, 2020-04-07)

#571

I am a smoker and cannot understand what tobacco has to do with a virus

Wilmien Steenkamp (Somerset west, 2020-04-07)

#572

Western Cape

Marcel Mayr (West, 2020-04-07)

#575

This will cause us as smokers to not have to look for it on the black market currently
It is our stress relief
will stop crime where people get to the point of they will rob a shop just for cigarettes
Family violance as a person that has withdrawal symptoms gets violant
Govermant losing alot on taxes

Pieter van Vuuren (Cape Town, 2020-04-07)

#576

I want to buy cigarettes legally.

Gerhard Moolman (Gauteng, 2020-04-07)

#577

I comply with all lockdown requirements, why can't I enjoy a cigarette in my own home. PLEASE lift the ban.

Wilna Borstlap (Cape Town, 2020-04-07)

#578

You are treating SA citizens as dictators! Prevent a national revolt, lift your ban on cigarettes or face the consequences!!!

Elna Lush (Springs, 2020-04-07)

#579

I'm signing this as a smoker...I am a chain smoker that will forsure die if my smokes are taken away...the sudden shock to that will make them burst in pain. I have been a smoker over 20years. I do not deny you, your breath of air, why deny me mine?

Ashlan Els (Gauteng, 2020-04-07)

#581

It's my human right to smoke. Stop concentrating on petty issues.

Adele Stone (Cape Town, 2020-04-07)

#587

I'm signing because I'm a smoker

CLAUDETTE SWANEPOEL (Gauteng, 2020-04-07)

#588

Because it is rediculous to sell sugars and other junk and ban sigarettes. Thus forces people to go buy at illegal vendors and obscure places instead of legally with all their junk and pay the taxes we sill surely need as a country after the lockdown.

Aletia Ritter (Strand, 2020-04-07)

#589

Im signing for the lift on the ban of cigarettes sales during lockdown.

Kyle Shelley (Cape Town, 2020-04-07)

#591

Lift the ban

Stephanie Aspeling (Cape Town, 2020-04-07)

#594

I'm signing because it should be the right of any person of age to decide if they want to smoke or not.

Jaco Lee (Rustenburg, 2020-04-07)

#597

Taking cigarettes away from people already financially stressed and locked in is asking too much which will cause depression or violence.

Mandy Mansfield (Johannesburg, 2020-04-07)

#599

I am a smoker

Delia Swanepoel (Cape town, 2020-04-07)



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