Published: Friday, 5th December, 2008 10:50am

Too easy for kids to buy cigarettes from vending machines

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IN SCOTLAND one in 10 school children who are regular smokers usually buy their cigarettes from vending machines.

With the age limit for buying cigarettes having been recently raised from 16 to 18, even more underage smokers may now be accessing cigarettes from vending machines.

It remains far too easy for children to buy cigarettes from vending machines and it undermines every other measure aimed at stopping them from smoking.

Most smokers start as children and smokers are twice as likely to have heart attacks as those that never start.

The British Heart Foundation is campaigning for legislation to tackle smoking among children.

Please support this campaign, sign the online petition (bhf.org.uk/signup) and help protect children from smoking.

Mrs Hazel Roper,

36 Natal Place, Cowdenbeath