Health Bill [HL]

In replying to the noble Earl, Lord Listowel, the Minister suggested that there would be no question of compelling retailers to keep cigarettes under the counter in order to sell them. However, in replying to Amendment 82, moved by the noble Earl, Lord Howe, she said that in practice retailers would no longer be able to take cigarettes from a display cabinet mounted at a relatively high level and hand them to the purchaser. The display cabinets would be much smaller and show perhaps only one packet of each type, and the cigarettes would have to be obtained from somewhere else. If they are not going to be kept under the counter, will there be a parallel drawer or something mounted at a high level from which the cigarettes can be taken?