Editor’s Note: The National Cancer Institute Monograph, “The Economics of Tobacco and Tobacco Control” is available here.
From: Professional Security Magazine Online
A retail trade association has written to Exchequer Secretary Andrew Jones, raising concerns about the impact of the upcoming tobacco ‘track and trace’ regulations on retailers.
The ‘track and trace’ proposals in the EU Revised Tobacco Products Directive, due to come into force in May 2019, aim to introduce a method of tracking the sale of legitimate tobacco products through the supply chain. So far, the Directive has stated that they would only affect the ‘last economic operator before the first retail outlet’ but the latest draft of the regulations includes a number of demands on retailers purchasing tobacco from a wholesaler, the ACS (Association of Convenience Stores) points out.
