This Just Doesn't Make Sense To Me.

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After havig a nice cuppa coffee at Second Cup here in Guelph, I walked next door to the little variety store, to buy a loaf of bread. Infront of me was a guy buying cigarttes. Canadians will be familiar with the display (or lack thereof) that I'm about to describe. Behind the counter where my friend who owned the store stood, is a series of square boxes that are larger than post office boxes, and set in a grid pattern. They are all labeled, and no one on the outside can actually see the contents. The guy asked for a particular kind of cigarettes. My friend at the counter opened one of the boxes on the grid, and retried them, closing the box after. What doesn't make sense to me is the law in Canada that one can sell cigarettes to those 19 and over, but cigarettes can not be displayed. I think it's because they don't want young people to be temped. Come on!!! Anyone who sees a box grid like the one I described, will know it's full of cigarettes. With all the gross pictures of diseased organs on cigarette packages, who'd be tempted by "pretty displays" anyway? What do you think of the idea of openly and obviously selling cigarettes, but a law that says we're not allowed to actually DISPLAY them in stores? Doesn't make a lick of sense to me!