ASDA
maybe it's other supermarkets, I don't know, but all their tobacco products are behind wooden shutters you can't see through and there is a pub style price list on the counter. so if for example, you wanted to know what you can afford you have to look at this A4 chart and find out what you can buy, then ask, then wait while the flustered staff turn round not knowing where anything is to find your product, which they can't find due to the shutters, which has no price on the shelf, as it is on the little price guide only the person at the front can see, so no chance of working out change in the queue like normal. after a 15 minute!!? wait you get the thing that being a nicotine drug addict you will wait for anyway so this entire exercise is pointless, so what is the bloody reason for this?
(robneymcplum spiced up his life on, Fri 24 Feb 2012, 21:35, 7 replies)

There are other shops that sell these items, so I've heard.
And anyway, you should be grateful - Asda genuinely care about your health and are trying to give you a reason to give up.
Because the wheezing every time you climb a flight of stairs, constant stench of stale fags around your person and massively increased risk of terminal illness cutting your life short aren't enough.
( drimble he'd been white, he'd been black, Fri 24 Feb 2012, 21:48, closed)

I've noticed this in Tesco
although they have smart plastic screens as opposed to wooden shutters, no expense spared at the nation's favourite grocer.
I think the idea is to make buying tobacco appear more illicit than it actually is thereby attracting youngsters to take up the habit.
Or maybe it's to encourage smokers to buy their fags from some dodgy bloke down the pub.
( Dick Wonder ₐ wₒₙₖy, wₐᵥy wₒₙdₑᵣ, Fri 24 Feb 2012, 23:08, closed)

It's all to encourage you to find your local dodgy polski sklep and see what goodies they can sell you from under the counter
(TheJacksonSixth, Sat 25 Feb 2012, 1:52, closed)

do you never read the news?

( janet aylia y'all motherfuckers need jesus, Sat 25 Feb 2012, 7:05, closed)

I do, but wasnt aware it had come into force
in the arse end of february? surely 1st of march or something? And as a side note, my tobacco that is normally 3.87 was 3.50. I wrote that post in the queue waiting but for a 37p saving I retract my complaint. But it just seems odd the whole 'hiding' fags thing. No-one starts smoking with fags they have bought themselves, people's first pack of fags is usually bought underage... these are the rules. Hiding them away wont make the slightest bit of difference.
(robneymcplum spiced up his life on, Sat 25 Feb 2012, 10:15, closed)

First they
forced all the smokers outside making smoking far more visible than before and now they're hiding cigarettes away from view?

It makes you wonder if these campaigners have got the first idea .....
(manwiddicombe is thinking of something witty to add here, Sat 25 Feb 2012, 15:31, closed)

to me
it just seems to make smoking way cooler than it already is....
(robneymcplum spiced up his life on, Sat 25 Feb 2012, 18:38, closed)