Anti-smoking backlash

Impractical, senseless and a threat to their business
This is how liquor industry associations described South African Health Minister Aaron Motsoaledi’s plan to ban smoking in public places last week.
In October last year, the minister said: “We are going to ban total smoking in public areas. At the moment, we have put a corner in restaurants and a corner at the airport.
“We have also, stupidly, even put a corner at the hospital,” he said.
He was speaking at the launch of a 24-hour health television channel in Alexandra, Joburg.
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