http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/national/shop-quits-selling-tobacco-products-and-backs-youth-ban/story-fnjj6013-1227504878472
GOOD FIGHT: Lois Ireland in her shop on Flinders Island, where she has taken a stand against tobacco products. Picture: ROGER LOVELL
A TASMANIAN shopkeeper who stopped selling cigarettes after a customer died of lung cancer has urged the State Government to push ahead with a ban on selling tobacco to young people.
Lois Ireland, who owns a general store on Flinders Island, has become a lone voice among retailers desperate to protect their tobacco trade.
“I had never liked selling cigarettes, but when a customer died of lung cancer five years ago it was the straw that broke the camel’s back,” said Mrs Ireland, owner of the Bowman and Co general store at Whitemark.