Clause 6 - Specialist tobacconists
Tobacco Advertising and Promotion Bill
11:45 am
Mrs Caroline Spelman (Meriden, Conservative)
No. Many special tobacconists will now fall outside the definition of a specialist. If the Government had stood back and thought with more common sense about specialist tobacconists and accepted one or two of the amendments, they would have made a difference without opening the floodgates or creating a massive loophole. In practical terms, that would have given specialist tobacconists a reasonable defence that will now be denied to some of them.