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"The legislation was passed by the last government with the intention that supermarkets would have had to remove these displays in 2011, and small retailers two years later," says Professor Ann McNeill, deputy director of the UK Centre for Tobacco Control Studies

It was just a candy laced with Benzocaine, a numbing agent for the taste buds. It would presumably reduce someones interest in food, so they would eat less, she said

We felt like bringing it to the Board of Health was bypassing the democratic process. The goal, supporters say, is gradually phasing out tobacco usage by placing more separation between the products the number one driver of preventable death nationwide and people in their teenage and young adult years, ages when most chronic smokers begin their use, according to the Food and Drug Administration

It has also launched education campaigns in schools and in local media