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Originally Posted by Lee-Z
https://www.rokeninfo.nl/wet/sigaret...r-minderjarige
"Whoever buys the tobacco for a younger person is not punishable. However, if the seller can know that they are for a young person under the age of 18, he must refuse to sell. Otherwise he is punishable."
so it's the seller who runs the risk of punishment, not the buyer.
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Do you think Alexia buys her cigarettes (assuming she smokes) directly from vendors, in which case the seller is punishable (since he/she is selling to someone who he/she clearly knows is under 18) or does someone else buy them for her, in which case the seller may not be punishable (as he/she has no way to know whom the cigarettes are intended for), but there is at least an ethical (if not legal) issue involved with the intermediate as he/she is initentionally and consciously trying to circumvent the law ?
By the way, again, that is similar I guess to what happens in the States; the seller, not the underage buyer, is the one who is punished/fined. The only difference is that a third-party that operates as an intermediate/ supplier to the minor (even for free) is also punishable, I think, in most states if he does so intentionally (or at least I think he is; I am not a lawyer).
It would be a bigger embarassment if it turns out that someone inside the Royal Household is the supplier. I think that used to happen in the case of the Prince of Wales' sons, who also got cigarettes from Royal Household staff (long-term royal watchers may confirm that; I didn't follow them when they were kids).
Maybe the mods could please move this discussion to "Royals who smoke".