Tobacco Vending Machines

EDM number 2502 in 2007-08, proposed by Chris Ruane on 13/11/2008.
Categorised under the topic of Health education and preventive medicine.

That this House supports the British Heart Foundation's call for urgent action to ensure a new generation of young people do not become smokers; believes that children's easy access to cigarettes through tobacco vending machines undermines other important tobacco control measures; notes that the British Heart Foundation estimates that over 46,000 11 to 15 year old regular smokers bought cigarettes through vending machines in England and Wales in 2006; recognises that this number may now be higher as the age limit for purchasing tobacco has now been extended from 16 to 18; and calls for legislation to be included in the 2008 Queen's Speech to bring an immediate end to the sale of tobacco products from vending machines.

This motion has been signed by a total of 60 MPs.