Latest Tobacco News – Page 24
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Product News
Price squeeze sees smokers economise
Economy brands are the gantry’s brightest stars as the ongoing squeeze on spending pushes smokers down the pricing ranks, says Gaelle Walker
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Product News
The state of play on tobacco display
Plans for banning the display of tobacco are different across the UK. Here’s the story so far
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Product News
Criminal gang targets cigarette gantries
Store owners in the West Midlands have been hit by a spate of break-ins targeting their cigarette gantries.
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Product News
Landmark on a roll
Landmark Wholesale has launched a new economy-priced hand-rolling tobacco under its own label No3 brand.
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Product News
Retailers urged to blow the whistle on illicit traders
A responsible store owner is urging his fellow retailers to report illicit tobacco traders to the authorities, after his tip-off led to the prosecution of a black market operation in his area
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Product News
Scottish retailers face 'world's toughest tobacco ban'
The future of tobacco retailing in Scotland is under threat from the most “disruptive and draconian” tobacco display ban in the world, the Scottish Grocers’ Federation (SGF) has said
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Product News
Tobacco displays are up in the air again
The twists and turns in the battle to keep cigarettes over the counter and under the control of the only responsible supply chain just keep on coming, says Dave Visick
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Product News
llicit tobacco trade booms in Ireland
The trade in illicit tobacco has reached new heights in the Republic of Ireland, creating more problems for the nation's recession-hit independent retailers.
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Product News
Price fixing fines worry tobacco retailers
The recent Office of Fair Trading (OFT) ruling that the UK's two largest tobacco companies colluded with large retailers to set the price of products could damage their relationships with the independent trade, retailers have told Convenience Store.
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Product News
Tobacco display fight to go to the courts
Manufacturers and retailers have launched a legal challenge to the tobacco display ban reguations
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Scotland and Wales announce tobacco display ban plans
The Scottish government plans to limit the display of tobacco products to an area approximately the size of a cigarette packet.
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Features and analysis
Election issues: Tobacco
With health officials claiming that smoking causes 84,000 UK deaths each year, the issue of tobacco control will always be on the political agenda, whatever political shade takes the helm.
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Product News
Doctors’ plans for tobacco point the finger at stores
A new report by one of the UK’s most influential health lobby groups has angered tobacco retailers by proposing radical control strategies which could force them out of the market.
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Product News
Tobacco display ban faces Lord's challenge
A Conservative peer has called for the regulation behind the ban of the display of tobacco products to be annulled.
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News
Campaign update: Stop tobacco proxy purchasing
Our attempt to draw attention to a startling loophole in the law that an adult can buy cigarettes for a child without fear of reprisal contributed to bringing the proxy purchase of tobacco to national prominence last year.
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Product News
Tobacco display: all cost and no effect
The details of the tobacco display ban regulations reveal watered down measures that will inflict costs, but not achieve their supporters’ aims
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Product News
Dangers of illicit tobacco hit the big screens
A new retailer-backed scheme which explains the many dangers of purchasing illicit tobacco is to reach thousands of adult smokers.
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Product News
Display rules are a ‘ludicrous’ burden
Store staff will have to check the age of customers before letting them see a packet of cigarettes – or else face prosecution under the tobacco display regulations.
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Product News
Gold Leaf puts on weight
Gold Leaf Roll Your Own Tobacco (RYO) is to revamp its handy box and pouch offerings.