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TOBACCO VENDING MACHINES SHOULD GO

October 14, 2009 4:42 PM

Cigarette vending machineNick Harvey notes, "Constituents have been regularly lobbying me to support the removal of cigarette vending machines. Whilst there has been much heated debate about the banning of advertising tobacco products at the point of sale in shops, I do agree that vending machines should go.

"Evidence and common sense indicates that these machines are the most common source of cigarettes to the under 18s. Government proposals that they should be operated by tokens purchased from a bar are bureaucratic nonsense and will not deter young people from getting the tokens from third parties.

"Surely it would be much more sensible simply to sell cigarettes from behind the bar with the same ID requirements as alcohol

"Finally more needs to be done to combat illegal tobacco imports, the criminalising of the supply of tobacco to minors the same as alcohol, plus greater incentives to get adults to quit smoking in order to give a correct message to our children."

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