Cigarette companies and dairy operators I take your point Phil, but the fact is - unlike spray cans - the government already places a truckload of conditions on the sale of cigarettes to protect the health of potential purchasers. And one of the disincentives to purchase that it uses - excise duty - is what created the black market and made dairy owners vulnerable in the first place. Add to this the fact that most dairy robberies - including this week's near-fatal stabbing - are committed by people too young to legally purchase cigarettes, and I think we have a clear case of the government creating a risk and requiring dairy owners to manage it. It's easy to say they should just stop selling the things if they can't protect themselves, but dairies operate on very small margins, and for the owners I spoke to it was a commercial necessity. One of them told me he'd be happy to stop selling cigarettes, but only if other dairies had to do the same, because otherwise he'd lose a big chunk of his customer base.