Lift the ban of selling tobacco in South Africa during lockdown

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#2004

Smoking it my stress relief being home has oushed my anxiety and depression through the roof

Casey Cronje (Worcester, 2020-04-10)

#2006

I'm a smoker and agree with the points listed.

Cameron Cave (Johannesburg, 2020-04-10)

#2009

Because I can, know of other substance that is more harmfull than cigarettes.

Frik Strydom (Mossel Bay, 2020-04-10)

#2010

Im a smoker

Eileen Mackintosh (Cape town, 2020-04-10)

#2012

There will be a lot more illegal action happening should you not allow the sale of smokes to the public, some people have been smoking over 20 years so it has become an essential item to them, need to keep the city calm and at ease and this will not help, going to make anxious citizens more anxious as they cannot get a simple box of smokes

Samantha De Wit (Benoni, 2020-04-10)

#2016

Cigarettes are essential to people who smoke

Mariapina Ferrante (Springs, 2020-04-10)

#2019

Studies show that smokers immune system takes a knock when stopping for the first time.
Further more it's cruel to force this on people.
It assist in stress relief and due to this lockdown and virus pandemic people are stressed. Smokers ability to function will be compromised.
If we had more to occupy our selves with. Like physical activities then this would have been easier. Though we are confined to our homes.

We want to help and stay home to prevent the spread. But most won't have the will or temperament to stay put. They'll seek relief.

Please lift the ban on cigarettes.
Keep the ban on alcohol. It is far more dangerous cigarettes.

Jacki Viljoen (Johannesburg, 2020-04-10)

#2021

It has nothing to do with Coronavirus and it helps me deal with stress during this difficult time.

Kirsty Pereira (Johannesburg, 2020-04-10)

#2023

Because people will start looting pkaces and driving more up and down so just please lift it.

LeGrange Stevens (Polokwane, 2020-04-10)

#2024

We as smokers adhered to the stay at home rule. Please may we smoke our cigarette's in our private homes.

Jenny Conradie (Pretoria, 2020-04-10)

#2025

People are going to die because of withdrawel!or kill each other!

Retha Blaauw (Pretoria, 2020-04-10)

#2027

I believe people are being well disciplined during this lockdown and we deserve a ban lift.

Keegan Esterhuizen (Johannesburg, 2020-04-10)

#2034

I am a hypertensive smoker. Not smoking cause me to stress and get wothdrawal symptoms

John Halforty (Newcastle, 2020-04-10)

#2035

People need their cigarettes for stress relief

Annie Spangenberg (Gauteng, 2020-04-10)

#2037

It just seems so unfair to ban the sale.of tobacco product in the lockdown. Only in S.A. ??????

Hendrik Du Plessis (Kempton Park, 2020-04-10)

#2038

Its a persons human right to smoke and there is no violence attached to smoking sigarets

Janine Wilms (Western cape, 2020-04-10)

#2043

I think its the choice of the people as to when they should quit and not government to make the choice.. We understand that the virus attacks the respiratory system however, not everyone can just go 'cold turkey'.. Lift the ban as it will be a win win for the people who smoke and the government in terms of tax

Rose-ann King (Durban, 2020-04-10)

#2046

We need smokes to stay calm

Chantal Bronkhorst (Boksburg, 2020-04-10)

#2048

I want to have one pleasure in my life that I enjoy

MARTIN FOURIE (PORT SHEPSTONE, 2020-04-10)

#2051

I'm a smoker. Lockdown is hard enough, why decide for us whether we can smoke or not??? It is our constitutional right to decide if we want to smoke or not!!!! End this now!!!!!

Estelle Oosthuizen (Benoni, 2020-04-10)

#2054

Im signing because i am a smoker, i smoke because it relieves my stress levels. And in the time and crisis we are living in it can become really stressvol. So i need a gwaai!!!

Phillip Vorster (Pretoria, 2020-04-10)

#2056

I'm a smoker and completely alone during lockdown, my sanity and stress levels depend on this one luxury.
Stop home abuse, insanity and looting.

Fiona Van Zyl (Polokwane, 2020-04-10)

#2058

It is essential !!!

Charlotte Coetzee (George Western Cape, 2020-04-10)

#2060

It is MY CONSTITUTIONAL RITE of freedom to smoke and to DRINK!!!! with is now be VIOLATED!!!!!!!!!!

heleen steenkamp (Margate, 2020-04-10)

#2061

I am a smoker, it's the only luxury in life, and work for my smoke money

Andrew Du plessis (Port Elizabeth, 2020-04-10)

#2062

I need my stress relief

Marzel Heyns (Port Edward, 2020-04-10)

#2064

It's unfair that smokers are forced to quit smoking when there are more important things to deal with

Warren Hendriks (Capetown, 2020-04-10)

#2065

Please we need this ban to be lifted it's the only way we can cope with all this stress

Cathrine Van der Walt (Richards bay, 2020-04-10)

#2066

Cigarettes and alcohol should be available to those who wish to buy them (preferably in conjunction with food sales).

Kyle Cockeran (Cape Town, 2020-04-10)

#2069

Need my smokes

Jonjacques Van Rooyen-Tope (Johannesburg, 2020-04-10)

#2071

I'm a smoker and withdrawal symptoms lead to aggression and stress
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/228584523_Nicotine_Withdrawal_Pathway_to_Aggression_and_Assault_in_the_Locked_Psychiatric_Ward

Brenda Fernandes (Roodepoort, 2020-04-10)

#2074

we have stocked up for the 21day lock down not the additional 14 days .... cigarettes is a addiction and once we run out it will cause mention in homes. it can also lead to people getting sick from withdrawal symptoms

Megon Bisset (Cape Town, 2020-04-10)

#2083

I am a smoker and did not anticipate the lockdown to be extended and will run out

Sharney Derman (Johannesburg, 2020-04-10)

#2084

Someone drinking alcohol goes cuckoo.
Someone who is a smoker without sigarettes goes cuckoo.

Carin Dekker (Johannesburg, 2020-04-10)

#2086

I need my sigaretted to stay Sane.

Annalie Boshoff (Vryheid, 2020-04-10)

#2089

I am a smoker

Kylan Kunzmann (Pretoria, 2020-04-10)

#2090

I am a smoker and it is my stress reliever.

David Foster (Bloemfontein, 2020-04-10)

#2093

I'm signing because it is a basic human right!

Stephanie Ras (Kuilsriver, 2020-04-10)

#2098

It is absurd

Pieter Theron (Brakpan, 2020-04-10)

#2099

I am smoking for 40 years and think just quiting will be a big shock to my system that can cause severe acute harm

Annelize Nieuwoudt (Pretoria, 2020-04-10)

#2101

It's not so easy to quit...
And my mom if she stops she will not make it....

Ursula Gouws (Port Elizabeth, 2020-04-10)

#2110

I don't want illegal smokes sold

Robin Quinn (Gauteng, 2020-04-10)

#2115

I am a smoker and we were given one day to stock up and since then the lockdown has been extended!!! Please let us buy cigarettes!

Rene Johnson (East London, 2020-04-10)

#2118

Smoking is my right. It has nothing to do with anyone else if I smoke. You have taken away my demacratic right to smoke in my own home and you are controlling my life

Mary MacFarlane (Cape Town, 2020-04-10)

#2119

I was a smoker once and I can testify that if someone just stop smoking because of no cigarettes their lungs go into a type of shock. This will cause more deaths due to lung condition during the COVID19 pandemic. Yes alcohol we can manage but taking away an addiction from people who have done it most of their life will cause more harm than good. Also South Africa is losing more money not selling cigarettes. People will just start stealing and we cant afford riots because of basic things we as South Africans were used to. Rather limit the quantity sold to people than not allowing them to buy at all. Its not going to save anyone its going to do more damage. I was on medication for almost a year before my lungs started functioning correctly after I stopped smoking. I still have to make use of asthma medication from time to time. Stop trying to kill the people

Madelein Steinberg (Gauteng, 2020-04-10)

#2120

The Government did not give sufficient notice , a few hours in fact,, very unfair, and I am now sharing what meager supply I have with my 75 yr old lady neighbour, rationing her to 3 a day, only have another 3 days supply

Leslie Pratt (East London, 2020-04-10)

#2122

I am a smoker and would like to be able to buy cigarettes

Dirk De Bruiyn (Midrand, 2020-04-10)

#2128

Lift the ban on selling sigarettes

Tania Jones (Centurion, 2020-04-10)

#2129

For 25 years I'm smoking, to just stop will have a big impact on my and my family's lives.
Please I beg you Mr. Prisedent to think about this again.

Chris de Beer (Lephalale, 2020-04-10)

#2136

I smoke

Shannon McCallum (Edenvale, 2020-04-10)

#2137

I'm desperate for cigarettes. The black market is thriving during this lockdown.

Penny Bard (Durban, 2020-04-10)

#2138

As I feel it was not done the correct way. Other people can travel all over in taxi's and spaza shops sells sigarettes. You smoke it at your home and not in public. Lift the ban and on alhocol.

Annelize Botha (Gauteng, 2020-04-10)

#2139

Can the ban of cigarettes be lifted

Samkeh Ngcobo (Durban, 2020-04-10)

#2142

Human right to smoke, some people get angry and loose their temper if they can't smoke and then the children are the ines that suffer in those homes

Adri Jonker (Bloemfontein, 2020-04-10)

#2143

I'm signing this petition because I am a smoker and i get very cranky, irritated and frustrated if i dont/cant have a smoke which puts everyone around me in a very 'dangerous place' because i can lose my cool at any given time. Lucky for you, me, the police and every other person out there, I live alone and I am confined to my space due to lockdown.

Please atleast bring back cigarettes, it doesnt hurt anyone.

Rudi Snyders (Gauteng, 2020-04-10)

#2144

I need to buy smokes

Claire Goodse (Pinetown, 2020-04-10)

#2146

I'm a smoker, and that's enough reason

Magda Van Dyk (Gauteng, 2020-04-10)

#2150

Im a smoker and poeple that do have smokes sell them for 700-800 a carton

Ruan Hechter (Pretoria, 2020-04-10)

#2151

I m a smoker, and need my smokes just as some needed food, I need smokes

Milandie Birch (Bloemfontein, 2020-04-10)

#2152

A person cannot go cold turkey. Depending on their age and dependacy it can cause serious health issues.

Avryl Horen (Centurion, 2020-04-10)

#2153

It is an essential item to some ppl & particular during this difficult time of lockdown it wld cause untold damage to ppl to go through withdrawal symptoms. The current situation is bad enough & causes no else harm if one chooses to smoke.

Ria Steyn (Durban, 2020-04-10)

#2154

I need to smoke

Gail Brits (Roodepoort, 2020-04-10)

#2159

Smoking should bot be banned. It is a necessity for some.

Cecilia Addyman (Port Elizabeth, 2020-04-10)

#2161

It is ridiculous to stop us from smoking

Johan Labuschagne (East Rand, 2020-04-10)

#2164

For some, being in this lockdown is taking a toll on our mental health and while smoking may be an unhealthy coping mechanism, it’s a coping mechanism nonetheless. The more comfortable people are in their homes, the easier People will find it to stay at home, and not become impatient/frustrated and break any of the lockdown rules/ start a riot.

Imaan Hassim (Pretoria, 2020-04-10)

#2165

I am a smoker and know what it's like to go with out. It's terrible.

Dominique Eberhardt (East London, 2020-04-10)

#2166

I'm running low, and to ban cigarettes won't stop me smoking or any one else. People will make plans to get cigarettes.

Franco Van der Merwe (Polokwane, 2020-04-10)

#2172

I need my cigarettes. Stress releaver.

Willem Oosthuizen (Mount Edgecombe, 2020-04-10)

#2173

I don't want to be forced to break any laws by obtaining cigarettes illegally. I would much rather prefer to stay a law abiding citizen and adhere to the lockdown rules. However you should realise that tobacco is a serious addiction that can cause severe withdrawal and even death. Please think about this and what the economy could gain in this time by the resale of tobacco

Tinkie Patrick (Springs, 2020-04-10)

#2175

My husband doesn't have enough cigarettes for the extended lickdown and I don't want to die just yet

Juanita Fernandes (Johannesburg, 2020-04-10)

#2180

I am a smoker and prefer to be happy with my family while on lockdown as opposed to being moody and grumpy.

I just dont understand it.

Cherise White (Durban, 2020-04-10)

#2183

As we work on this together and are suffering many losses and hardships is is not for any Government Minister to punish us or drive us in illegal acts.

Willam Pirrie (Rosetta, 2020-04-10)

#2185

I'm a smoker and drinker

Warren G (East London, 2020-04-10)

#2186

I am an ex smoker. I underwent withdrawal symptoms.

Krishna Manikam (Ottawa, 2020-04-10)

#2188

I’m signing because I’m a smoker and i received my sassa grant on 30 march after lockdown started

Adele Venter (Nelspriut, 2020-04-10)

#2189

I'm signing because i' m a smoker

Christa Herbst (Nelspruit, 2020-04-10)

#2191

Its a ridiculous ban with no medical grounds, typical of the ANC

Leon Joubert (Roodepoort, 2020-04-10)



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