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More than half the cigarettes sold in South Africa are illegal, new research shows | SA News

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Illicit cigarettes have quietly come to dominate South Africa’s tobacco market — not on the margins but at its core.

New research from the University of Cape Town (UCT) has revealed that roughly 60% of all cigarettes sold in the country in 2021 were probably  illicit, marking a dramatic shift in both the structure of the market and the risks it poses to public health and state finances.

The study, conducted by researchers at UCT’s Research Unit on the Economics of Excisable Products (Reep) and published in Tobacco Control, paints a picture of an industry that has been reshaped over the past decade and…

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