The Observer (Kampala)
28 February 2008
The Court of Appeal last week dismissed an appeal against the ban on smoking in public places. The appeal filed by former British American Tobacco Controller, Joseph Erayu sought to argue that the ban on smoking violated his constitutional rights as a smoker and restricted his liberty and freedom of movement.
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Doesn't Uganda have much bigger health problems than the chimera of secondhand smoke??? I wonder how much money from pharmaceutical corporations (or deep-pocketed "philanthropists" like Michael Bloomberg) went into passing this ban int he first place.
Tobacco smoke is an statistically insignificant health risk. Nobody on this planet ever died or got cancer ,'SOLELY' from sedond-hand smoke