At 01:14 PM 11/28/98 -0000, you wrote:
>Near the exit of our local supermarket, national chain, excellent in
>many ways, thre is a kiosk which I realised today has the chocolate
>display at the front, child level, and the tobacco at the back.
>
>I appreciate that supermarkets have to sell small chocolate items
>under the eyes of staff, otherwise sticky fingers would be a problem
>for parents as well as th shop, but I wonder if the two groups of
>products could be separated.
>
>How about letters to teh manager of any supermarket that this
>applies to asking if they would study ways to separate these, so
>that children are not trained to associate the chocolate they are
>likely to get after a shopping expedition with the cigarrettes their
>parent gets.
>
>
>--- OffRoad 1.9r registered to Adrian Midgley
I don't think this needs "studying" too much. Chocolates are sold from the
shelves in many of our local supermarkets, and at the checkouts not
cigarette counters of others. Putting them together is a deliberate
marketing ploy, and any statement about preventing childrens sticky fingers
touching them is no more than a sick excuse.
Getting cigarettes totally out of supermarkets into tobacconists who should
not be allowed to sell anything else (except maybe cannabis if its
legalised) would be the best answer. Then the supermarkets will have no
financial stake in creating a new generation of smokers.
Smoking is rising again in some age groups, more people will die, more
families will be deprived of middle aged fathers because of smoking related
MIs, and more of today's children will watch their parents die needless and
horrible deaths from CA lung because of our lack of action.
I am NOT a prohibitionist, but you have my wholehearted support Adrian.
Regards
Julian
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