'He did not say whether he had a receipt for whatever his advisors were smoking,' FMF CEO Leon Louw said.
Johannesburg - Police Minister Bheki Cele has decided that smoking with receipts is healthier than smoking without them, the Free Market Foundation said on Sunday.
"Cele whimsically decreed that people with receipts may smoke. No, that is not a joke or fake news, and, no, it was not another planet. It really happened. Here," he said. Loony aspects of lockdown drove harmless people into the hands of criminals who, gleefully supported by the government, prosper while normal lives were ruined. The government was carpet bombing its own country. By the time the tobacco ban was lifted, it might have cost the economy R450 billion – enough to replace all shacks with houses, or give all unemployed people informal jobs, Louw said.
Policymaking ought to be a carefully considered process, based on scientific evidence, cost-benefit analysis, and public participation. For such measures to be constitutional, there had to be a rational connection between cigarette receipts and Covid-19 transmission. "On my planet, there is no such evidence," he said.
Instead of the SA Police Service being a service distributing advice, masks, sanitiser, and gloves, it was back to being a police "force" as under apartheid. Like its precursor, it now had to enforce ludicrous laws. Instead of protecting harmless people, it criminalised them.
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