Cigarettes And Alcohol

EDM number 545 in 1999-00, proposed by Jane Griffiths on 16/03/2000.

That this House calls for urgent action to be taken to halt the serious problem of bootlegging of alcohol and tobacco, which is putting many independent retailers out of business, with average losses of around 16 per cent. a year; notes that bootlegging has serious health and social costs which arise from minors having unregulated access to alcohol and tobacco; and calls on all members of the European Union to take urgent steps to halt this illegal and harmful trade.

This motion has been signed by a total of 84 MPs, 4 of these signatures have been withdrawn.