The air in 2013 will be cleaner than now, because in this year cigarette displays in shops will be banned and new restrictions on the use of vending machines will be drawn up. Only the new legislations will make air clean. Other measures including outlawing packs of ten and forcing makers to produce plain packaging have been dropped too.

Beginning with October 2011 large shops will have had to remove all tobacco displays from the point of sale and smaller businesses will have to comply by 2013. Peter Mandelson, business secretary, was opposed to the new moves due to fears it could harm small corner shops during the economic downturn.

A spokesman for the Department of Health said there was no evidence that shops had been forced to close in other countries which have already removed cigarettes from display. Many people think that the new legislations will increase smuggling of tobacco. According to a study, in the countries where was introduced smoking displays people have quit smoking by up to 10 percent. But a ban on the displays of tobacco products in shops is not justified because there is no reliable evidence suggesting it will lower smoking rates or stop young people from starting to smoke in all countries.

Vending machines are the primary source of cigarettes for nearly one in five young people aged 11 to 15 and children were able to use the machines in more than 40 percent of test purchases. The British Heart Foundation estimates that 46,000 children purchased their cigarettes from vending machines in 2006. That’s why the main goal of scientists is to convince children to not buy cigarettes from vending machines. They want to include electronic ID cards for to operate the machines or infra red remote control which the shopkeeper activates if they believe that the customer is 18 years old.

The measures will be brought in by 2011 and monitored to check if they are working, if not, then ministers will consider banning cigarette vending machines altogether in 2013. Anti-smoking scientists want to put a stop to smoking, because smoking is a habit which is hard to break and causes 87,000 deaths a year in England alone.