Opinion poll: No appetite for stricter anti-tobacco rules say EU voters
Smokers campaign group publishes pan-European survey on views of European citizens on EU measures to tackle smoking.
Smokers campaign group publishes pan-European survey on views of European citizens on EU measures to tackle smoking.
With a self-declared lobbying budget of €5 to €6 million, 94 lobbyists from 24 different organisations operating in Brussels are pushing for more pervasive anti-tobacco policies – 13 of them received €6 million in subsidies from the European Commission in 2016.
“The regulations are excessive, even by the European Commission’s standards” says smokers’ lobby group Forest EU
The Commission is now on record having called into question the proportionality of larger health warnings in delivering public health gains.