Following the failure of the EU's revised Tobacco Products Directive to reduce smoking, there is a need to look at other ways of achieving health gains.Read More
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If standardized tobacco packaging does not reduce either smoking or smoking uptake, logically, it should be done away with, but logic does not always sit easily with government policies.Read More
EU policymakers are performing the dance of death with lower-risk nicotine products - one step forward, two steps back…one step forward, two steps back…Read More
Pressure is being ramped up in the EU in relation to electronic-cigarettes by those proposing that standards should be tightened and advertising rules relaxed.Read More
A number of voices are currently calling on the EU to impose and police Union-wide standards on vapor devices and products.Read More
Japan Tobacco International’s vice president, reduced-risk products, has suggested a number of ways in which the EU’s Tobacco Products Directive might be improved in respect of vapor products.Read More
Information has been made available about the technical details that will define how the EU’s tobacco-products tracking and tracing system will operate.Read More
For the sake of smokers, it is to be hoped that the European Court of Justice reaches a different conclusion to that of its Advocate General when considering the EU’s ban on snus.Read More
The main weapon for battling the illegal trade in tobacco products seems to be locked away in an international protocol that was adopted in November 2012 but that has yet to enter into force.Read More
If there is to be a debate on electronic cigarettes, what better place than one designed for debates: parliament; in this case the EU Parliament?Read More