In that time, a third of our newsagents, grocers and tobacconists and a quarter of our greengrocers, fishmongers and chemists have disappeared.
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It is pretty easy to make tobacconists answerable in terms of their scrutiny of various customers.
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Which sort of premises should be affected—newsagents and tobacconists in the morning, garden centres in the afternoon, and garages?
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I believe that this business of the sale of cigarettes is a red herring, and that thetobacconist-confectioner-newsagent will exist if his site is right.
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Practically all the newsagents and small tobacconists who distribute newspapers are using part-time employees.
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It is common knowledge that many tobacconists are prepared to sell cigarettes singly, for a few pence per cigarette.
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A great deal of alarm has been expressed about the tobacconists.
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Possibly, we could ask retail tobacconists to assist us in this campaign by giving away a poster with each packet of cigarettes they sell.
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We have heard that the retail tobacconists are worried.
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I do not think that under-age children are going to tobacconists and spending that money themselves.
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In my constituency there is a specialisttobacconist, to which people come from miles around, to buy and sample products.
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Anything that affected the small tobacconists affected the power of those people to support themselves.
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A large proportion of them are newsagents and tobacconists; their number easily comes first.
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It is collected from thetobacconistby the tote representative and then fed into the machine so that one can operate the tierce.
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Anyone who happens to have a tobacco book can walk into a tobacconist's establishment and use them.
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