the age limit to buy cigs is 18 and  an offence to sell to a younger person.

at 18 you can look at drink and choose what to buy,at 18 you can look at a male/female and decide to marry

but no-one can look at cigs no matter their age

it is a sap to the anti-smooking brigade

the worse offendersof  selling to underage people is all the markets/boot sales and the like,they will sell to any-one