Saturday 12 March 2011

Cigarettes and Tobacco

The Government is proposing to prevent retailers having cigarettes on display in shops as a further step to reduce the number of people who smoke.

Why not remove all profit from the retailing of cigarettes by requiring retailers to sell them for the same price as they buy them?

In the meantime shouldn't retailers voluntarily donate all proceeds from the sale of tobacco products to charity rather than profit from such a harmful product.

Maybe there could be a voluntary window sticker "We give all tobacco profits to charity". I would prefer to use that sort of shop.