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There is no evidence that plain packaging will have any impact on cigarette counterfeiting. In your 16-22 June edition, you reported – as your headline put it –...

Industry steps up campaign against a revision of EU rules on tobacco. Groups representing the tobacco industry and small retailers are stepping up a campaign against a...

It is disappointing that the ministers from the EU's new member states blocked a proposal to make cigarettes more expensive in the EU (‘Ministers aim to stub out low duty...

One smoker in two dies from the habit. Although smoking is in gradual decline there are still almost 700,000 smoking-related deaths every year in the EU, with smokers living...

The first research showing a link between smoking and lung cancer was published in 1950. More than half a century later, Europeans are beginning to feel its effects. In...

Big tobacco has moved beyond issuing blanket denials that smoking might be linked to lung cancer and heart disease. Europe's largest tobacco firm, Philip Morris...

The EU banned smokeless tobacco, including snus (moist snuff), in 1992, claiming health risks. It was an uncontroversial decision as snus made up a minimal part of the...

There's no smoke without fire, runs the old saying, and there's no smoking ban without smouldering discontent. taff on the upper three floors of the Berlaymont, the...

TO DAVID Byrne, talking with big tobacco types is a waste of breath. The health and consumer protection commissioner, an anti-smoking crusader who would like to push through...

There was just no holding back Health and Consumer Protection Commissioner David Byrne when he was guest of honour at a media seminar hosted by the European Publishers...

WHAT do Moby, Sophie Ellis Bextor, the A-Teens and Loona have in common? Yes, they're all pop stars. But, more importantly to the European Commission, they all ‘Feel free...

Rules currently grinding through the Union's legislative process to require tobacco firms to put huge health warnings on cigarette packets will cost hundreds of jobs,...

Following last week's ruling by the European Court of Justice overturning the EU's planned ban on tobacco advertising, Andrew Hayes argues that the Union needs new treaty...

HEALTH Commissioner David Byrne will next month propose tough new EU-wide legislation to govern the content, labelling and sale of cigarettes in a bid to reduce the death...

Long-awaited European Commiss- ion proposals for further restrictions on the sale of cigarettes and tobacco, originally expected last month, are now unlikely to be unveiled...

EUROPEAN Commission officials have indicated that a bid by MEPs to force the UK to align its tobacco taxes with those of its closest EU neighbours is almost certain to...

Havana cigars have been a sensitive issue amongst EU diplomats ever since the Helms-Burton row erupted. Should they puff and be damned to demonstrate their opposition to...

PLANS to modify the EU's tobacco regime have been put on hold temporarily because of concern over an apparent contradiction in the Union's policy towards the sector. That...

Lights! Camera! Action! – or whatever it is cigar-chewing movie directors say these days. Yes, a fictional version of the everyday lives of ordinary Commissioner folk is...

EU HEALTH ministers will next week turn their attention yet again to the thorny issue of whether or not to impose a Union-wide ban on tobacco advertising. But with the gap...