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Cigarette sales ban is a sledgehammer to crack a nut, says tobacco lawyer

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The health-care benefits cited by co-operative governance & traditional affairs (Cogta) minister Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma for the decision to ban tobacco sales during the lockdown pale in comparison with the financial ruin it has caused.

This is according to British American Tobacco SA , which launched its legal battle against Dlamini-Zuma in the high court in Cape Town on Wednesday.

He said this was an “extraordinarily small number” that does not justify the “massive harm” caused by the ban. “The foregone billions of rand could have been used to combat the effects of the pandemic, for example by erecting field hospitals.”

 

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