Lidl will immediately stop selling cigarettes and other types of tobacco. Three years ago announced the supermarket to want the smoking products off the shelves by the end of 2022 at the latest.
“After we announced this step in 2018, we started to phase out the sale of cigarettes and tobacco,” said a spokesperson. “All branches that we have opened in recent years were immediately smoke-free. The phasing out in the other branches went well and this gave us the opportunity to realize our ambition to stop selling cigarettes and tobacco even earlier.”
Lidl is affiliated with “Towards Smoke-Free Generation”, an initiative of the KWF, Hartstichting and Longfonds with the aim of preventing children from starting to smoke.
Lidl’s decision anticipates the overall cigarettenban for supermarkets: from 2024 smoking products may no longer be sold in supermarkets. The ban is part of the National Prevention Agreement that State Secretary Blokhuis announced in 2018.
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