There are NO angels in tobacco industry: just bag snatchers, robbers - Van Loggerenberg

Growing up, I never thought I’d be a smoker. My parents were smokers, one of my grandmothers died of a smoking-related cancer and I hated the haze of passive smoke that hovered throughout our home. But, at Rhodes University, I found myself sampling free Benson & Hedges at various university-hosted parties. Before I knew it, I was hooked. Big tobacco might no longer be able to play dirty games to get young people addicted to their products, but they still play dirty in other ways. Just ask Johann van Loggerenberg who has suffered at the hands of sinister operators in a cut-throat industry. Van Loggerenberg, a former South African Revenue Service corruption buster, spoke to Alec Hogg about his latest book, Tobacco Wars. - Jackie Cameron