Reducing the availability of Tobacco Products

Young people can only smoke if they are able to buy or otherwise get hold of cigarettes. Therefore, measures to protect young people from the impact of tobacco, through legislation and other forms of regulation/control are a vital part of the solution.

It is for this reason that the NHS Highland Health Improvement Team work with the Highland Council’s Trading Standards to support the restriction of sales of tobacco and e-cigarettes, which cannot be sold to persons under the age of 18. This has included forwarding intelligence received regarding under-age sales activity to Trading Standards and the encouraging recruitment of suitable, under-age volunteers for tobacco test purchasing exercises.

We have also worked together on the #notafavour campaign, and co-created the Tobacco and the Law fact sheet, which is available on the Highland Substance Awareness Toolkit (H-SAT) website.