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Originally Posted by shillelagh

BBC NEWS | Politics | Cigarette display ban considered

How stupid is this.

Its easier buying booze than what it is buying fags - you can walk round asda/tesco throw a box of 20 cans in your trolley take them to the check out and pay for them and away you go. To buy your fags you have to go to another check out and queue up and be served with them. Do they honestly think that not having them on display behind the counter is going to stop anyone buying them?

Not another crackpot idea from a government minister who has nothing better to do than to interfere in our lives.

But Public Health Minister Dawn Primarolo said it was "vital" to teach children that "smoking is bad".

I can’t argue with that but hiding tobacco products isn’t going to do it.

I suppose that the next logical step would be to hide alcohol products as well. Then there would be sugar and salt. Not forgetting any other foods that have been declared bad for us.

Under the counter Easter eggs and the like.