TOBACCO retailers feel they are not being given the opportunity to air their views on a proposed licensing scheme.

Over the next 30 years or so, Guernsey’s Adolescent Smokefree Project wants to persuade the remaining rump of smokers – rather less than 20% of the population – to give up and make the island smoke-free by 2040.

THE Town constables want businesses to join them in a bid to stop smokers from turning the streets into ashtrays.

CIGARETTE vending machines will be banned in around 18 months’ time.

INCREASING duty on cigarettes could increase black market sales, one retailer has said.

SHOPKEEPERS must move with the times, according to one retailer who supports the ban on displaying tobacco.

A BID will be made to overturn the ban on cigarette vending machines

WHILE this newspaper supported the ban on smoking in public places and is in favour of proportionate attempts to persuade islanders not to use tobacco, Thursday’s ban on cigarette vending machines was quite simply bad government.

PUB owners have slammed the new blanket ban on cigarette machines.

MORE than £1,200-worth of stock was stolen from the Cobo Village Centre after thieves smashed their way into the property.