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MPs agree to ban cigarette vending machines and shop displays 

Leading health organisations, including Cancer Research UK, have welcomed MPs' decision to include an outright ban on cigarette vending machines in the Health Bill.

In a recent letter to the Times, the organisations urged MPs to dispense with vending machines altogether rather than simply limit access to them, as had previously been proposed.

Under the measures originally contained in the Health Bill, the machines would have been modified so that, for example, landlords would have been required to check a person's age before operating their cigarette vending machine with a remote control.

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