NO: Simon Clark, director of the Freedom Organisation for the Right to Enjoy Smoking Tobacco
I think it will make very little difference. If you make it harder for teenagers to get cigarettes it will actually make the product more attractive to some.
The idea that teenagers can afford a pack of 10 but not a pack of 20 is wrong. Teenagers these days have plenty of money to buy CDs and computer games, so to suggest they can't afford a pack of 20 cigarettes is ludicrous. I don't think it will have very much impact at all. YES: Jake Cureton, 16, Liverpool
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