SOUTH AFRICA TOBACCO INDUSTRY FIGHTS TO RECOVER FROM COVID-19 PROMPTED SALES BAN
December 2nd, 2020
IT is maybe not a common occurrence for the tobacco industry to find itself on the right side of judicial rulings, but in December, South Africa’s Western Cape High Court ruled that a four-and-a-half month national ban on sales of tobacco products, justified to prevent the spread of Covid-19, had been unconstitutional. The ban, the only one implemented worldwide, led to a 20% spike in sales of illicit tobacco products, according to market researcher Euromonitor International, and a loss of an estimated South African Rand ZAR3.5 billion (EUR190 million/USD212 ...
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