Norway is the most recent country to have banned the display of tobacco products and other smoking articles. The ban entered into effect on January 1, 2010.
Must hide cigarettes behind counter
Demokraten, December 15, 2009
From the beginning of this year you can buy but not see tobacco at kiosks, gas stations and grocery stores. "I doubt that this regulation will have any effect," said smoker Benedicte Gudjonsson.
http://www.demokraten.no/lokalnytt/article4759777.ece
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Out of sight, out of mind?
Minerva, December 31, 2009
The State has now tucked away tobacco products so that we can not see them anymore. For our own good, of course.
http://www.minerva.as/?p=8961
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The tobacco ban is ridiculous
Indre Akershus Blad, January 6, 2010
With effect from 1 January this year, it is no longer allowed to have visible tobacco products in retail outlets. Owner Frode Sletner of YX gas station Aursmoen calls the Health Directorate's order a joke.
http://www.indre.no/lokale_nyheter/article4791684.ece
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Russian protest
Gjengangeren, January 18, 2010
Although it is more than ten years since Sweden's former industry minister Bjorn Rosengren called Norway the world's last Soviet state, Lars-Petter Arnesen is convinced that it is still true. Now more than ever.
http://www.gjengangeren.no/nyheter/russisk-protest-1.1484422
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Towards a Nanny state
Venstre, January 20, 2010
“By allowing the state and health care to become a guardian of how life must be lived, I think we achieve the opposite, namely that people are passive and unable to take responsibility in their own lives. From a public health and prevention perspective, this is more damaging,” writes Trine Skei Grande
http://www.venstre.no/artikkel/25430
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Normal tobacco sales
Brønnøysund Avis Nett, 11 March 2010
On 3 April 2009 a POSD-ban for tobacco products was adopted. The ban has been effective from 1 January 2010. But the stores in Brønnøysund have not noticed any change in sales
http://www.banett.no/nyheter/article341283.ece
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