For a start, if this is about young people then why on Earth is the ban only in larger shops?If your under 18, you either get it off older friends/family, or try a dodgy corner shop in need of the money and where the bloke behind the counter will probably be effected much more by how much he can sell. Secondly, in case they haven't reaslised yet, the best way to make young people want something is to tell them they can't have it - if you didn't hide it or make it seem dangerous or bad, and took away the age restrictions, the amount of young smokers would decrease. The government is completely out of touch with life outside mansions and millionaire families, and this is yet another policy showing that.