Judgment in the first major legal challenge to the government’s controversial cigarette ban was reserved on Wednesday.

Pretoria high court judge president Dunstan Mlambo did not give a date for when the ruling would be given. He said the three judges hearing the case would e-mail the parties on an expedited basis. ..

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