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British American Tobacco SA lawyer Alfred Cockrell, centre, told the Cape Town high court that the billions of rand lost to the fiscus during the ban on the sale of tobacco products ‘could have been used to combat the effects of the pandemic, for example by erecting field hospitals’.Image: Philani Nombembe

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

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.…

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