Scotland will delay implementation of a display ban for tobacco products in supermarkets due to a legal challenge by Imperial Tobacco and forthcoming changes in the legislation, BBC’s online service reported.

Scotland Public Health Minister Michael Matheson said a new date for the ban planned for April will be announced in due course. The ban for large retailers was due to begin last October, before Imperial appealed the earlier dismissal of its challenge by the Court of Session in Edinburgh, according to BBC.
The second stage of the law would ban small retailers from displaying cigarettes as of 2015.
A supermarket ban in England is scheduled to take effect in April. Ireland, Iceland and Thailand are countries that have mandated cigarettes be sold from under the counter. (pi)