Over here, I haven't seen cigarettes displayed for years. I don't remember when they locked them up in cabinets, but it was a long time ago.

I also don't see as many people smoking anymore, I think the younger crowd is realizing they're unhealthy, and less are starting up.

I don't know if one has anything to do with the other, it could also be that they're so expensive.

...As if hiding them and pretending they don't exist in public will, in itself, have absolutely any effect on those who smoke or would choose to start. The almost childlike simple minded approach to some of these areas of regulation never cease to amuse me. It's just total disconnection from reality. Either outlaw them, like they so desperately want to do....or stop making Smokers suffer several times over in a variety of ways for a habit I'm sure most have come to detest themselves.

Thanks for sharing. It's interesting to see how other nations handle these issues.

So the cigarettes are no longer on display? So what? For the people who smoke, they're still readily available and they know where to get them. They're not being prohibited from smoking in any way. If their access to cigarettes was being limited, that would be entirely different.

Its been like that here in Canada for many years now.

On the rare occasion that I get my smokes at the dep, its usually a real hassle because the person at the cash doesn't speak much english or french.
They only know chinese or some other foreign language, so "Export-A Green King Size" means almost nothing to them and I cant even point at what I want anymore.
Its always a hassle and if you're a dipper... forget it! lol

Yet another petty law which serves no one - Perhaps they should have sliding doors on products containing BPA
or Aspertame also.

The law doesn't make any sense at all.
If they were actually behind a door because they are bad for you, then they would have to put the beer behind closed doors as well.

Its a very strange law and I dont understand the point. Who's making the money here? The door builders lol?

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Lol, where have you been, here in Canada it
been like that for years.
But then, in U.K. you still have milk cartons,
and need a lic. to watch t.v. ?
Anyways, here we just take a regular mthly. drive
to the Indian reserve. cartons are aprox. 1/2 price
($30 Canadian for 200 cig. and there's no tax)

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We have this kind of law in effect here too. You must hide all tobacco brands and only display numbers in the automatic machines at registers. You can ask a list from the store clerk to see what number to press. It's idiotic.

I'm all for it, in fact why don't you just put the tobacco products down in the basement. I have a list of other things that I would like to see go down there as well, may I put it here? Okay just a few.

Alchohol
candy
soda
gmo foods
vegetables grown with pesticides
unnatural cleaning products
unnatural medicine/drugs
anything made with monsanto products....

Crap, you know what, maybe they should just put the whole dang store down there.
If you left all the things upstairs that were good for you there would be scarcely anything left but a few organic vegetables and meats.

In my opinion they should ban advertising for anything that is not healthy or that we don't need. Which is basically everything that is advertised. The whole worlds economy is now based on trying to sell us things that we don't need and that is precisely why we are stuck in this crappy economic collapse, have no idea how to get out and nobody knows how to do anything for themselves anymore. You can't grow macaroni and cheese or twinkies out in your back yard.

Who cares if you can see the cigarettes, you know they are there and you will get them if you want to. If them being under the counter saves one person from lung cancer then it was worth it right??? Problem is they need to hide almost the whole dang store under there with them. Most of the 40,000 crappy products in your average store are basically the same crap, just processed into different things to serve different, unneeded purposes to make some corporation money.

Sorry, can't help myself sometimes, I need a smoke now,,,

Originally posted by artistpoet
Yet another petty law which serves no one - Perhaps they should have sliding doors on products containing BPA
or Aspertame also.

Personally fatty foods would fit the bill here aswell as the ones you mentioned.

Believe it or not you are more likely to die from over-eating and becoming obese than you are from smoking. I choose to smoke, but i don't stand next to non-smokers when i do. From a visible standpoint, you have to look at obese people when they get in the way and the cakes in the supermarkets don't help that matter. You don't have to look at a smoker.

I'm not saying we should all be vegan's. I eat cake or whatever once in a while, it just sickens me when there are families who tend to be overweight and everything in their shopping cart is a fatty substance.

I say anything with sugar or fatty substances in them should be treated with closed cabinet displays if they end up doing this to all tobacco counters in stores.

Just a personal opinion, but why should one product which can be considered harmful in the long-run, have a form of censorship imposed on it, while there are worse products still on the shelves, namely the fatty foods.