Clause 4 - Advertising: exclusions
Tobacco Advertising and Promotion Bill [Lords]
3:15 pm
Ms Yvette Cooper (Parliamentary Secretary (Public Health), Department of Health; Pontefract and Castleford, Labour)
If such people wish to receive advertising material—in the same way as everybody else—they can do so under the exclusion in clause 4(1)(b). If they make a particular request, they can receive a communication in reply. That option is open to them, as it is to others. They should not be dealt with as a special category because that would create a loophole. There would be nothing to stop tobacco companies giving free shares, or inviting people to buy one or two shares, and thereby creating a database of people that they could bombard with advertising.