Shop shuts on flavoured cigarettes today
Source: NSW. Minister Assisting the Minister for Health. Media Release
"Fruit and confectionery flavoured cigarettes aimed at encouraging teenagers to smoke will be banned from sale in NSW, NSW Assistant Minister for Health (Cancer) Verity Firth said.
"The Iemma Government is determined to fight tobacco marketing gimmicks aimed at getting our kids hooked on cigarettes," Ms Firth said."Fruit and confectionary flavoured cigarettes - aimed directly at appealing to children and young people - are perhaps the most dangerous of these marketing ploys."We now have in place tough new laws under our Public Health Act 1991 banning their sale. Retail outlets must remove from sale any existing stock of these flavoured cigarettes - as it is no longer legal to sell them."