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Article: Time to ban cigarette vending machines?
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- Bath Chronicle, The
- Article date:
- June 25, 2009
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I have just written to the new Secretary of State for Health,
Andy Burnham MP, demanding a total ban on cigarette vending
machines.
We don't allow alcohol, fireworks, knives or other age-
restricted products to be sold from vending machines because we know
a face-to-face transaction is the best way to make sure they don't
end up in the wrong hands. Cigarettes should be no different.
We need to tackle this anomaly which allows ...