Newagents once again to sell Cigarettes

 

As of January 2006, only bars hat were equipped to allow smoking, or Tobacos shops, were able to sell cigarettes, which lead to newsagents losing up to 90% of their income and leading to a closure of an estimated 4'000 such businesses. However, people will now be able to buy loose tobacco or cigarettes along with their newspapers.

The Association of Press Vendors in the Comunidad de Madrid (AVECOMA) has responded to these changes in legislation – stating how it will ‘end four years of discrimination'.

Thousands of letters of protesting the law have been sent to Prime Minister Zapatero over the last 4 years that the law has been in effect, and it now seems that the Newsagents can concentrate on using this change to their advantage in the fight against the recession.