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Shopkeepers say laws to stop cigarettes being put on display are a new nail in their coffin
Jump to full article: Times Of London (uk), 2009-10-18
Author: Jane Bradley
Intro: There is a long list of people who are barred from entering the shop of Edinburgh tobacconist Alan Myerthall. Gordon Brown, Alistair Darling, the chancellor, and former first minister Jack McConnell are all at the top, due to their support for the smoking ban, which tobacco retailers claim has been a nail in the coffin of their industry.
Now, ministers in the new Scottish government will also be turned away from the Leith Walk establishment if the proposed point-of-sale ban on the display of cigarettes and tobacco goes ahead.
The smoking ban has seen the demise of a number of Myerthall's peers, including the 100-year-old Glasgow institution Herbert Love, but the shelves in The Pipe Shop, Myerthall's store, are a tobacco lover's heaven. They are stacked with thousands of products, all related to cigarette, pipe and cigar smoking.
If the legislation goes ahead, retailers such as Myerthall, whose wife's family founded the tobacconist store more than 50 years ago, will be forced to keep cigarettes, rolling tobacco and cigarette papers out of sight under the counter, or behind a screen.
"Everyone in the trade is against it," said Myerthall
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