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Trading Standards has raised concerns about in-store adverts for tobacco heating devices
Posted 03 February 2025 | JoTS Online
Content Tags: Updates|Retail|National
UPDATES: Supermarket giants Sainsbury’s and Morrisons have come to the attention of Trading Standards for potential breaches of the law after it emerged that tobacco-heating devices are being advertised.
Supermarket giants Sainsbury’s and Morrisons have come to the attention of Trading Standards for potential breaches of the law after it emerged that tobacco-heating devices are being advertised in some stores.
Despite tobacco advertising being banned in the UK in 2002, the retailers are using in-store video screens and posters to advertise the iQos, a device which heats tobacco using an e...
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