[Pierre]

Originally Posted by Chris

Patently untrue.

I was referring to the fact that they are still available for sale and to buy.

It has fallen steadily as restrictions on it,

I would argue very small - unless your including the cost.

and education about it,

That is more relevant, it is all about the education.

have grown tighter and more sophisticated.

There is nothing sophisticated about banning things and hiding things from view.

There is every reason to expect the ban in public places, and now the proposal to ban display, to reduce the level of smoking in our society still further. And there is no basis for suggesting, as you have done, that there will be no impact.

My point, as I said above, was to the impact of the person buying the ciggarettes, there isn't one. If they want to buy them they can, as before, without restriction.

Instead of all this tokenism, why don't they just ban them outright? Now that would have an impact.