The EU Commission talks at great length about the harm caused by tobacco smoking, but seems to have no sense of urgency when it comes to reducing that harm.Read More
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The EU appears to believe that the positive impact of tobacco-product graphic health images outweighs the distress caused to people who believe, incorrectly, that the images are of a relative.Read More
The EU Commission is working on tobacco-product traceability and security systems, and has no plans to get into the distribution business.Read More
Is it rational to consider applying excise duty to unmanufactured tobacco in an attempt to reduce the illegal trade in tobacco, whose primary cause seems to be tax-driven, high-prices?Read More
France has a relatively high smoking incidence compared with the smoking incidences of neighbouring countries, but measures now in place are expected to reduce smoking rates ‘in the coming years’.Read More
Will a tobacco tracking and tracing system introduce ‘a mechanism of very little … public health and budgetary benefit which runs counter to all business rationale’?Read More
The Swedish government’s decision not to provide observations in relation to a case being brought to overturn an EU ban on the sale of snus is seen as a boost to that challenge.Read More
A discussion about the health implications of ventilation holes in cigarette filters seems to have descended into a debate about how to measure tar and nicotine levels.Read More
Nearly a quarter of the counterfeit products seized last year at the EU’s external borders were cigarettes.Read More
With time running out, questions are being asked about where the EU’ s tobacco-products tracking and tracing initiatives are heading.Read More
