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CITIZENCARD NEWS
 Latest Citizencard Newsletter Available MP Supports CitizenCardIain Wright, Member of Parliament for Hartlepool, will be visiting the The Local off-licence on Elwick Road this Friday to give his support to the CitizenCard, No ID,No Sale! Campaign. The No ID, No Sale! Campaign is aimed at stopping underage young people from purchasing alcohol and tobacco. The campaign is active in more than 100,000 retailers nationwide and is aimed at creating a culture in which young people expect to be asked to prove their age, and in which retailers accept only the correct forms of ID. The Tricky Question of AgeAt the beginning of October the legal age for buying tobacco rose from 16 to 18. But an investigation by The Argus yesterday revealed that most shops across Sussex were ignoring it and selling cigarettes to underage smokers without asking for ID. Katya Mira asks if there is any point in a law which is being widely broken. Tobacco & Children A business guidance leaflet on tobacco and children is now available from the Trading Standards Central Website Shops face coughing up £2500 Shops face coughing up £2500 in underage smoking law blitz SHOP owners will face a crackdown on the sale of cigarettes to underage customers from Monday when the legal age for buying tobacco rises from 16 to 18. Test purchasers - trained teenage volunteers who will try to buy cigarettes despite being underage - will be used by the city council's trading standards officers in the month-long clampdown. Anyone found selling tobacco to people who are underage could face a fine of up to £2500. Information packs featuring new posters and stickers have been sent to shops across the country and if a shop fails to display the correct signs they could also incur a fine of £1000. But retail groups say the changes have not been well advertised and could lead to confrontations between young smokers and shop staff. They say there should have been a high-profile television, newspaper and billboard campaign and the Government has so far focused its efforts on the internet. A survey for CitizenCard, the UK's leading commercial proof of age card, found one in five people aged between 16 and 18 were not aware of the change in the law. Read the full story (Edinburgh Evening News) Pages : [1] 2 |
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