Reducing Tobacco Sales to Young People

A collaborative working guide for organisations and agencies who wish to contribute to reducing sales of tobacco to under-eighteens

Guide contributors, including Trading Standards Officers, health promotion specialists and representatives of retail associations agree that reducing access to tobacco by young people will be a community effort and part of the wider culture change being sought by the Scottish Government to improve Scotland's health.

With this in mind this guide identifies the Key Stakeholder Groups that will need to be involved in this comprehensive effort to reduce sales to children and young people under-eighteen. 

The guide includes the following information for each of the Key Stakeholder Groups:

  • purpose and remit
  • membership
  • relevance to the prevention of sales to children and young people
  • contact details .

Reducing Tobacco Sales to Young People (pdf 640kb)

This guide was developed by the 'Reducing Sales to Young People Working Group'  member organisations of the group were:

  • Society of Chief Officers of Trading Standards in Scotland (SCOTSS)
  • ASH Scotland
  • City of Edinburgh Council Trading Standards
  • South Lanarkshire Council Trading Standards
  • East Dunbartonshire Council Trading Standards
  • Scottish Tobacco Control Alliance
  • NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde
  • The Co-operative Society

In addition the following organisations contributed useful feedback and information:

  • The Scottish Retail Consortium
  • The Scottish Grocers Federation
  • Young Scot