Bad news for smokers: High court says cigarette ban was rational

The North Gauteng High Court on Friday dismissed the Fair Trade Independent Tobacco Association’s urgent challenge to the controversial ban on cigarette and tobacco product sales during the Covid-19 pandemic, saying the ban did not have to be “the best nor the most suitable” approach.Last month, FITA approached the court with an urgent two-part application.

Of the research Dlamini-Zuma had relied on in her papers and FITA’s criticism thereof, Mlambo found it was not the court’s job to “undertake an in-depth comparison as to which of the parties’ medical research reports and opinions are better or more cogent than that of the other.” Mlambo said the minister could, perhaps, have tendered better evidence but that this was not the question before the court.

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