MPs pan 'addiction' reasoning for allowing cigarette sales during lockdown
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A group of opposition MPs has questioned the government's reasoning for allowing the sale of cigarettes during the "total lockdown" to contain the Covid-19 pandemic.
Deputy Domestic Trade and Consumer Affairs Minister Rosol Wahid had said cigarettes sale would be allowed even though not an essential good to "avoid problems" with addicts...
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