the finances of the government if there's only illegal trades there are no texas and the south african revenue service already predicted a shortfall of 15000000000 euros this year because of business closures and job losses so to the question we. asking on this was the ban on the sale of cigarettes effective it's what i'm going to put to dr katherine f.a. she is a specialist scientist for tobacco and other products welcome to day demi's africa . yes maybe straddle for that with an outline of what what was the government trying to achieve in the banning of the sale of cigarettes was it to stop people smoking. thanks christine i don't think the government was trying to protect the citizens because i don't because we know if he has a book listen i'm. not one of the citizens because look. or. serious substance use as well as. some of these things are already known rescript that's what we've seen sort of this is the country of the very disadvantageous position which we got right in to this so. we're going to rest once we go into something to do some extra leo protection you know for us not to see what we s