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.
“The current prohibition incomprehensibly limits options for smokers”, responds smokers’ campaign
Both the European Network for Smoking and Tobacco Prevention and the Smoke-Free Partnership could get a 2018 operating grant from CHAFEA.
“Adult consumers must be allowed to buy a wide range of nicotine products, some safer than others” says Forest EU
‘Governments in Europe must review their smoking ban laws’ says European smokers’ rights group Forest EU.
The ÖVP and FPÖ parties are said to be thinking of dropping a smoke ban that would be applied in all restaurants, bars and nightclubs as soon as May 2018.
Forest EU urges European governments and the EC to distance themselves from a policy that represents the opposite of good governance.
L’idée que les films doivent représenter un monde utopique et sans fumée pour les adolescents et les adultes est particulièrement condescendante.
