Latest Tobacco News – Page 29
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stocklines - Silk Cut menthol
GALLAHER is extending its Silk Cut range with a new menthol variant.
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C-stores unite to condemn display ban ‘gimmick’
Retailers, trade bodies, and manufacturers have reacted angrily to the news that the government intends to push through a ban on the display of tobacco products, despite extensive opposition and scant evidence that the move would reduce youth smoking.
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Five years to comply with display ban
Convenience retailers have until 2013 to meet the requirements of a ban on the display of tobacco products, introduced part of a government crackdown on youth smoking.
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PM backs ban as tobacco sanction
The government has given its strongest hint yet that it is planning to introduce a 'negative licensing' scheme for tobacco retailers in the New Year.
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stocklines - Silk Cut Squares
GALLAHER has launched a new Silk Cut Squares campaign for the run up to Christmas.
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ASH urges stricter targets to beat tobacco smuggling
Anti-smoking pressure group Action on Smoking and Health (ASH) is calling on the government to commit to a new and ambitious set of targets to stamp out illegal tobacco sales in the UK.
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Shoppers urged to join fight
Retailers are to be armed with new material to raise awareness of the proposed tobacco display ban among their customers
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Tobacco's black hole
Campaigners from all sides agree that more must be done to tackle the illicit supply of tobacco
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Icelandic display ban has no effect
Evidence from Iceland suggests that a ban on the display of tobacco products would have little or no effect on the incidence of underage smoking.
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From all sides: Three interested parties give their reaction to the government’s tobacco ideas
Three interested parties give their reaction to the government’s ideas
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Tobacco warnings
Pictorial health warnings are now appearing on all tobacco products manufactured for the UK market. Retailers have until September 30, 2009 to sell through cigarettes with the existing textual warnings on the packs. They have an extra year to sell...
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A counter argument
A ban on the display of tobacco products might not change smokers’ habits, but it will punish retailers
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Tobacco petitioners swoop on DoH
Staff at the Department of Health (DoH) got a rude awakening on Monday morning when a group of angry independent retailers hand-delivered more than 7,000 postcards in protest against Government plans to ban the display of tobacco products in shops. The retailers, all members of the Tobacco Retailers' Alliance, ...
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Huge response to tobacco review
The Department of Health (DoH) has been inundated with retailer responses to its consultation into tobacco control, C-Store can reveal. A spokeswoman for the DoH said that “several thousand small retailers” had written in to indicate their...
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Tobacco law must address real issues
The Association of Convenience Stores (ACS) has warned the government that the proposed ban on the display of tobacco products is a distraction which must not prevent it from addressing the real issues affecting the tobacco market.
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GPs have their say
Retailers should hand over the profits they make from tobacco sales to fund tobacco control projects and reduce smoking rates, doctors have said. The proposal is one of several measures outlined in a new report by the British Medical Association,...
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Last chance to save displays
Convenience Store today urges all retailers to make their voice heard in the debate on the way tobacco products are sold in this country.
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Tobacco display ban is just the start
The current proposals to ban the display of tobacco products and 10-packs of cigarettes is only the thin end of what will be a vast legislative wedge, the Association of Convenience Stores (ACS) has warned. ACS public affairs director Shane Brennan...
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