Lidl has stopped selling cigarettes and tobacco in the Netherlands, reports NL Times.

The supermarket chain had previously announced that it would phasing out the sale of smoking products, becoming the first supermarket in the Netherlands to stop offering tobacco. That process has now been completed.
Lidl's decision to stop selling tobacco dates back to 2018, when the supermarket said that cigarettes and tobacco had to be removed from all shops by 2022 at the latest. In the end Lidl, which currently has 440 stores in the Netherlands, managed to do a slightly earlier than expected.
"After announcing this move in 2018, we started to phase out the sale of cigarettes and tobacco," a spokeswoman was quoted as saying. "All branches that we have opened in recent years were smoke-free from the start. 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."
According to the report, a general ban on cigarette sales in supermarkets is also coming, the cabinet announced last year. From 2024, supermarkets in the Netherlands will no longer be allowed to sell cigarettes. And a year earlier, the sale of tobacco via the internet will be banned.