From today (1st Feb) pubs in Wales will be banned from selling cigarettes and tobacco from automatic vending machines. It will also be illegal to display adverts or pictures of tobacco on vending machines. This is great news and a positive step forward in preventing the sale of tobacco to children. Evidence shows that vending [...]
Posts Tagged ‘safeguarding children’
Calling time on cigarette vending machines
Wednesday, February 1st, 2012
Put children first in the fight to reduce health inequalities
Wednesday, July 1st, 2009Another motion up for debate yesterday at the ARM focused on safeguarding children and their futures. Delegates are calling on the Welsh Assembly Government to put youngsters at the heart of every one of its department’s priorities, for the next two decades, to give ALL children the best start in life. One way of dong [...]