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26MayMay 26, 2023

Butt why? The EU countries weighing a ban on cigarette filters to deter smoking and cut pollution

Health and environmental campaigners are calling for a European ban on cigarette filters, saying it would fight pollution and discourage people from smoking. Cigarette butts are the second most common litter found on European beaches, according to the World Health Organization (WHO). Last year, WHO called on governments worldwide to consider cigarette filters as single-use plastics...

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11AprApril 11, 2023

Smoking in Europe: Which countries are the most and least addicted to tobacco and vaping?

The UK government has announced new plans to wean a million smokers off tobacco and onto vaping with its world-first "swap to stop" initiative. Smokers in England will be able to access vaping starter kits in a bid to help one in five current smokers quit the habit. As part of the plans, which were announced...

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13JanJanuary 13, 2023

Smoking in Europe: Which countries are the most and least addicted to tobacco and vaping?

Tobacco companies will now have to clean up cigarette butts from streets and beaches in Spain under a new environmental regulation. The ruling, which also says cigarette manufacturers will be responsible for educating the public not to discard their butts in the public space, is part of a package of measures to reduce waste, single-use...

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15DecDecember 15, 2022

EU tobacco taxation: The fine line between killing smoking and illicit trade

The European Union’s plans to further increase tobacco taxation and reduce declining smoking rates across the bloc have pleased public health advocates, but the industry warns that tax revenues may be disrupted by the rise of illicit markets that flourish when taxes are high. According to the World Health Organisation (WHO), tobacco taxation is an...

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25NovNovember 25, 2022

EU ban on flavoured heated tobacco products comes into force

The European Commission (EC) said on November 23 that it welcomes today’s entry into force of the ban on flavoured heated tobacco products. This ban responds to the significant increase of sales of these tobacco products across the EU, the EC said. It would help achieve the goal set out in Europe’s Beating Cancer Plan to create a “tobacco-free Generation”,...

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01JulJuly 1, 2022

European Commission wants to ban heated tobacco products

Sales of heated tobacco products have rocketed in Europe. The European Commission said Wednesday it wants to prohibit the sale of all flavored heated tobacco products as part of its goal to cut tobacco use to 5 percent of the bloc’s population by 2040. Sales of heated tobacco products have rocketed in Europe. From 2018 to 2020, sales...

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25AugAugust 25, 2021

Learning from COVID to tackle the tobacco epidemic

For the better part of two years, the attention of policymakers and health experts across Europe and North America has been focused on the battle against COVID. With vaccination campaigns cutting into hospitalization numbers and giving public health experts space to breathe, the World Health Organization is seeking to put another major global health...

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