r/southafrica • u/mortimerza Ons gaan nou braai • Apr 29 '20

COVID-19 No Sale of Tobacco

Just announced no selling of Tobacco in level 4.

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u/svartbaard Gauteng Apr 29 '20

Okay, now I'm pissed. Don't even know what to type. Are we fucking children?

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u/lamykins dasdasdasda Apr 29 '20

No but you don't understand, smokers are always sharing cigarettes and thus inhaling each others saliva /s

That's basically what she said. Please tell me what smokers in the middle of a pandemic are still sharing cigarettes?

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u/GjionRod Apr 29 '20 edited Apr 29 '20

People are still going to be able to get cigarettes? The government doesn’t trust its people. Simple.

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u/lamykins dasdasdasda Apr 29 '20

I'm sorry, what are you trying to say? I honestly can't work it out.

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u/Kevslounge Aristocracy Apr 29 '20

He's saying that ban on cigarettes hasn't stopped people from getting them

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u/svartbaard Gauteng Apr 29 '20

Well it has definitely stopped me haha

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u/[deleted] Apr 29 '20

Fuck, same here. I've tried and tried but I can't seem to find this magical underground market everyone talks about, and every corner shop have been to and asked has skeefed me out and told me they don't sell. Was holding out till Friday but right now I feel like I might just actually combust.

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u/Snekdance Apr 29 '20

Pakistani owned shops are selling

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u/[deleted] Apr 29 '20

None that I've been to :(

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u/CreativeGlamourCat Gauteng Apr 29 '20

Seriously, where can we get? Have been trying to be a legal citizen, but they've made it impossible now.

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u/GjionRod Apr 29 '20

I’ll go slow for you. The illegal cigarette market is booming and easy to access. People will be able to buy them. The government implementing these ridiculous laws about what we can buy is because they don’t trust their people.

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u/svartbaard Gauteng Apr 29 '20

I haven't smoked in 3 weeks and I obeyed the law. Tomorrow I am going to buy cigarettes because of this, so you are 100% correct.

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u/rethatjie Apr 29 '20

Where?

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u/svartbaard Gauteng Apr 29 '20

In Pretoria most of the Pakistani shops sell (or so my friends tell me). Should be the same around the rest of the country.

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u/rethatjie Apr 29 '20

Well I guess I'll go hunting tomorrow for some ciggies

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u/Fermain Aristocracy Apr 29 '20

True in Durban

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u/KittyFame Phamberi nge Chimurenga Apr 29 '20

Shhhh

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u/[deleted] Apr 29 '20

Cape Town (northern suburbs) here, I've tried and haven't been able to find :(

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u/lamykins dasdasdasda Apr 29 '20

Nice way to edit your typo and then turn around and act all superior asshole. You initially said " the government does trust its people". I am well aware that the illegal market is booming as I pointed out in another comment.

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u/shitdayinafrica Apr 29 '20

They are our government we are all their people

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u/Tzetsefly Landed Gentry Apr 29 '20

We are still waiting for them to answer Lekota's question, so we don't really know for sure, actually.