Latest Tobacco News – Page 28
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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
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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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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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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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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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
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.
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Product News
How tobacco shoppers think
Georgina Wild of HIM asks whether retailers know the full value of their cigarette shoppers
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Product News
Retailer leads fight against tobacco regs
A Northern Irish retailer is urging fellow store owners to respond to a consultation by the Department of Health, Social Services and Public Safety on tighter sanctions against tobacco retailers in the province.
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Opinion
ACS in action: Concessions made on tobacco display ban
ACS has won a victory on tobacco display, but will keep fighting after the election. When Parliament voted for the ban on tobacco displays at the end of last year we were left frustrated by a sense that it was political posturing rather than a clear...
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Product News
Zig Zag acts natural
Zig-Zag hopes to capitalise on the booming roll-your-own tobacco category with Rasta tobacco.
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Product News
Tobacco display concession is a light in a dark market
Small store lobby groups are claiming a limited victory after the Department of Health (DoH) announced amendments to the tobacco display ban regulations which will reduce the practical difficulties and implementation costs of the ban.
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Product News
ASH to take on the illicit tobacco trade
Anti-smoking group ASH (Action on Smoking and Health), which was influential in lobbying for tobacco display restrictions on retailers, has said that tackling the illicit trade is to be one of its key priorities going forward.
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News
Tobacco makes a c-store comeback
The squeeze on consumer spending and new anti-smoking laws could actually have helped boost tobacco sales in local shops in the past 12 months, Convenience Store's latest product survey has revealed. Some 27% of the independent c-store...