§ Mrs. Wiseasked the Secretary of State for Prices and Consumer Protection whether he will take steps to protect children from having advertising mail containing price reduction tokens for tobacco products sent to them by post.
§ Mr. John FraserIf my hon. Friend will let me have full details I shall make inquiries.
§ Mrs. Wiseasked the Secretary of State for Prices and Consumer Protection what information he has as to the advertising budgets of tobacco companies; whether he has made any study of their sales techniques especially in relation to children and young people; and whether he will raise with the industry the matter of these sales techniques, with a view to ending them.
§ Mr. John FraserI do not have details of the advertising budgets of tobacco companies. The British Code of Sales Promotion Practice and the British Code of Advertising Practice controls advertising and sales techniques aimed at young 467W people and if my hon. Friend will let me know what particular techniques concern her I will ask the Advertising Standards Authority to look at them and let me know whether, in its view, the codes are not being observed.