JOB-LOSS FEARS
Vapers are fuming. From next week, they’ll pay much more for their habit as a new “sin tax” comes into effect on June 1, and a flat excise duty is slapped on nicotine and non-nicotine vaping liquids.
Outraged industry role-players have warned of the devastating health impact it could have because vapers were likely to revert to cheap cigarettes to feed their habit.
The increase is not a surprise: the idea was first mooted by Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana during his budget speech in February last year when he announced that “government also
