Tobacco related content 

Member states want Commission to step up anti-smoking effort. The European Commission should do more to get people to stop smoking in a bid to reduce health inequalities...

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...

Plan to change rules on tobacco products gets a huge response. Public consultation can seriously damage your health. Officials at the European Commission's department for...

Bid for minimum excise duty on tobacco as duty per 1,000 cigarettes could rise to €90. EU finance ministers will next week (11 November) try to agree an increase in the...

Tackling chronic diseases remains the focus of public health policy, but action taken so far has had mixed results. European countries have made great strides in eradicating...

Health commissioner says EU citizens are not protected from tobacco smoke. The European Commission wants EU member states to increase their efforts to ban smoking in public...

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...

The campaign to get people to quit smoking. The curious juxtaposition of cigarette advertising at sporting events was brought to an end by an EU-wide ban on tobacco...

Proposal aimed at improving public health; Concern that it will encourage smuggling. Finance ministers will try on Tuesday (5 May) to reach a deal on raising minimum levels...

Sweden's trade minister outlines why the EU should end its ban on Sweden's special form of tobacco. How would the people of France react if the European Union wanted to...

Commission to put forward bon-binding proposal in bid to boost compliance with international commitments. National governments should step up their efforts to stop people...

Legal steps to ban smoking at work would not start during the term of the current European Commission. The European Commission is to sound out trade unions and employers on...

Committed to consulting with all – except Lady Nicotine. Although tobacco is grown in several EU member states, it is three southern countries, Greece, Bulgaria and Italy,...

EU executive believes that mandatory switch to self-extinguishing cigarettes could save hundreds of death a year. Cigarette companies will be forced to make their...

Current restrictions put small bars at a disadvantage, court rules. Germany's Federal Constitutional Court has ordered German states to revise smoking restrictions...

European Commission proposal would narrow price differentials across Europe and tighten loopholes. Tobacco taxes across Europe will be raised and definitions of...

Cancer's unnecessary death toll, and the necessity of further restrictions on tobacco.

These days legislators tend to be hesitant about trying to effect change – especially social change just by passing a law. Today's conventional wisdom suggests that that...