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In this case, the problem is the cigarillo loophole. I remind noble Lords what happened when regulations were brought in to legislate against menthol cigarettes. Months later, something was launched called the Sterling Leaf Wrapped, which is a box of 20 sticks that look to you and me very similar to cigarettes, but that have a small tobacco leaf around them that allowed them to be termed cigarillos. They therefore avoided the menthol restrictions applied to cigarettes. Their packaging, name, placement on the shelf, size and marketing were, to all intents and purposes, exactly the same as the menthol cigarettes against which we had legislated. That is the cigarillo problem.