As legal challenges ebb, the continued ban on the sale of cigarettes seems likely for the foreseeable future
The future of SA’s controversial cigarette sales ban — the only one of its type in the world — now lies firmly in the government’s hands, after two defeats in the legal campaign to have it overturned.
On Friday a full bench of the high court in Pretoria dismissed the first big legal challenge to the ban by the Free Trade and Independent Tobacco Association , after finding that there is a “rational connection” between the prohibition on tobacco sales and the government’s stated objective of using it to prevent overburdening SA’s already strained public health-care system.
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