“Are they trying to control us people?”: News media coverage of COVID-19 lockdown tobacco sales ban in South Africa

• Catherine O. Egbe ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: catherine.egbe@mrc.ac.za

  Affiliations Alcohol, Tobacco and Other Drug Research Unit, South African Medical Research Council, Pretoria, South Africa, Department of Public Health, Sefako Makgatho Health Sciences University, Pretoria, South Africa

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5698-6866

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• Senamile P. Ngobese,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Alcohol, Tobacco and Other Drug Research Unit, South African Medical Research Council, Pretoria, South Africa, Department of Public Health, Sefako Makgatho Health Sciences University, Pretoria, South Africa

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• Hannah Barca,

  Roles Formal analysis, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation School of Public Health, University of Nevada, Reno, Nevada, United States of America

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• Eric Crosbie

  Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations School of Public Health, University of Nevada, Reno, Nevada, United States of America, Ozmen Institute for Global Studies, University of Nevada Reno, Reno, Nevada, United States of America

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