The tobacco association says illicit trade in cigarettes is ‘destructive of the rationality of the ban’, a notion the court dismissed
The Fair Trade Independent Tobacco Association says the high court ruling that effectively validated the government’s controversial coronavirus cigarette sales ban is riddled with legal and factual errors, and it plans to urgently appeal it.
Fita is adamant that the ban, which is costing SA billions of rand in excise duties, is neither rational nor necessary in the government’s fight against the Covid-19 pandemic. Dlamini-Zuma has repeatedly argued that the ban was put in place because of evidence that smokers are more likely to suffer more severe Covid-19 complications, including death. She contends that banning the sale of cigarettes will result in a large number of SA’s 8-million smokers quitting and therefore reduce the possible strain of their Covid-19 complications on the country’s already overburdened health system.
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