Tag: cigarettes

If the draft EU Tobacco Products Directive is approved, it will allow the continued sale of pharmaceutical products sold as aids to smoking cessation, which have been shown over and over again to be largely ineffective, says Gilbert Ross.

European Commission plans to clamp down on the tobacco industry, set to be published later this year, will boost criminal activity, according to an industry-funded report out today (3 April).

Bar and restaurant owners in Spain, until now one of Europe's most smoker-friendly countries, fear that a ban on smoking in public places that took effect last weekend will hit them hard and worsen the economic crisis.

A decision by Finland to test the ignition ability of all cigarettes sold in the country could be extended across Europe as of 2011 in an attempt to prevent domestic fires and related deaths.

On Tuesday 19 February, a US district court dismissed the EU's claim that cigarette producers boost their profits by oversupplying Eastern European countries in order to favour smuggling into the EU, causing big tax losses. The European Commission announced it would continue its lawsuit against Phillip Morris, Japan Tobacco and R.J. Reynolds Nabisco, despite the dismissal of its claims.