The latest news that all cigarettes are to be removed from display to be under-the-counter sales just confuses me.
It is all done to protect our young. As a smoker, who enjoys smoking and will continue to do so, I feel greatly wronged over these new proposals.
I will not be able to see the prices and look for better deals. I will not be able to see new brands coming out. I will be made to feel like a pervert requesting porn or drugs via the back door, and at any price.
This is an infringement of my liberty. After all, smoking tobacco is not illegal.
Yet I feel the angry smoking lobby will not refrain until is finally so.
This slow banning move will only force more of us smokers in this country to real under-the-counter deals. I speak of imported smuggled tobacco rings, of which there are many up and down the country.
Even young kids will have far more access there.
Christine Peters, Knyveton Road, Bournemouth
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