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> make a single-cigarette dispensary .. or sell them in the same places packs get sold, whether that's shops or bars or machines or wherever.
by corin_ 13y ago
> make a single-cigarette dispensary
.. or sell them in the same places packs get sold, whether that's shops or bars or machines or wherever.
- DanBC 13y agoThat's not legal in the UK, where people buying single cigs tend to be children.
- corin_ 13y agoDidn't know that - shame really, under-age smoking should be combated by enforcing ID checking.
- shocks 13y agoIn theory, it is enforced by ID checking. In theory.
- DanBC 13y agoWe tend to use a combination of measures. 18 is the legal minimum age to buy cigs (recently raised from 16) and shops should be checking ID. Ideally they check if they think the purchaser is under 21. We combine that with other stuff - advertising bans, placement restrictions inside shops, quantities sold, eye-watering tax levels, etc. Some of these are counter productive. The high tax rate means many cigs are smuggled into the country. And this is a route for counterfeit product. Legal cigs are harmful enough, but some of the counterfeit product is worse, contaminated with a variety of weird stuff. Banning smoking in public buildings (something I'm in favour of) means a few people smoke in their cars, but with their children in the car too. That's pretty bad. Many children are admitted to hospital because their parents smoke, and so increasing the tobacco smoke that children are exposed to feels like a bad idea. I'm generally tolerant of government regulation, but we have too much in the UK.
- rtpg 13y agosingle cigarette dispensers could be smaller and wall mounted, wherever.
- corin_ 13y agoNot a huge amount smaller than machines selling packs of cigarettes, which already can exist pretty much anywhere (where laws permit).
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- brubrant 13y agoThat's a very common practice here in Brazil. In my region we call it "Cigarro picado" (sliced cigarette).