The prime minister should think again about plans to make the visible positioning of tobacco products in shops illegal, one campaigner has said, in turn creating a petition.
Independent retailer and national spokesperson for the Tobacco Alliance’s Responsible Retailers initiative Ken Patel argued that the move may damage competition.
He stated that smaller retailers may struggle if they are not allowed to display cigarettes and the like on the wall behind the counter.
“Forcing tobacco under the counter means shops like mine would have to shell out for a special unit, and in the current business climate most of us do not have thousands of pounds to spare,” he said.
He urged independent retailers to log onto the Downing Street Website and make their views heard to Gordon Brown.
Legislation that already exists should instead be enforced with greater prowess and proxy purchasing of tobacco by youngsters ought to be clamped down on, Patel commented.
The tobacco petition can be read here.
Yet Another farse of an idea that will just cost retailers more money in organising the hiding of display of tabacco. What planet are these politians on, kids will see people smoking in the streets they will be aware that cigarettes are out there so to think that stopping the display of them will make a difference. I personally think that this country has gone GAY.. “”"NANNY STATE gone on STEROIDS”"”". These politians have gone a step to far in how they judge peoples mind set. Really what will be next??? Other countrys around the world Laugh at us and what we put up with.