They are demanding that the ban on tobacco, tobacco products, e-cigarettes and related products be lifted with immediate effect.
A group calling itself Unite Against the Tobacco Ban will be gathering outside the Union Buildings in Pretoria, as well as outside parliament tomorrow, to protest the ban against the selling of tobacco products.
“There has to be a belief that the individual human being is the cornerstone of value. That all communities, all of us living together, we all exist for that person’s interest,” wrote Duncan Napier in the memorandum he hoped would reach Ramaphosa. The memorandum noted that people were “dying violently as a result of anxiety, increasing frustration and a slow steady build-up of anger which has reached boiling point”.
“We can easily divert to all the other things that carry health hazards such as obesity, but we respect the right of others to choose what they eat.”
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