Tag Archive for cigarette displays

Lobbying Parliament

Lord Norton

My post on the banning of display cabinets for cigarettes attracted the largest number of comments we have had since starting the blog.  As Croft commented, if the plan was ‘to show the readers what it is like to be intensely lobbied on a hot issue then I think it is a roaring success’.  The responses do…

Banning cigarette displays

Lord Norton

The Health Bill is presently going through the Lords.  Clause 19 bans shops from displaying cigarettes: “A person who in the course of a business displays tobacco products, or causes tobacco products to be displayed, in a place in England and Wales or Northern Ireland is guilty of an offence”.   It is a subject on…