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Jump to full article: The Grocer (uk), 2009-01-17
Intro: More than 15,000 small shops could go under if the government’s proposals to hide tobacco under the counter become law.
In a worst-case scenario, it could leave 75,000 people unemployed – two-and-a-half times the jobs lost when Woolworths closed.
That’s the stark warning from Japan Tobacco International, formerly Gallaher, which has given its damning verdict on the proposals as they reached the Lords this week.
JTI said the figure had been estimated using data from Canada where a display ban was already in place. There, 30% of smaller independents were at risk of closure, and if this was translated to the UK, it put 15,000 indies in jeopardy.
Sales would be displaced to the illicit trade which, JTI estimated, could rise to 30% of all tobacco smoked.
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