The smuggling of cigarettes and other tobacco products is a global phenomenon which, in the EU alone, results in an annual loss of more than €10...
It’s not often that the European Parliament’s Environment, Public Health and Food Safety (ENVI) committee makes the news. Yet the upcoming February 20th meeting is slated...
Vaping, or using e-cigarettes, poses only a fraction of the health risk of tobacco smoking and should be encouraged among smokers to reap substantial health benefits,...
When the European Commission (EC) published its final draft proposal on a cigarette track and trace (T&T) system, it was quickly criticized for leaving a backdoor...
The World Health Organization’s (WHO) Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC) has been criticized for its “obsessive and paranoid secrecy” in its refusal to allow representation...
Despite decades of efforts to counter the problem, smoking remains a major public health risk for Europeans as the number of smokers in the world has...
New KMPG report finds that governments lose up to €11.3 billion in revenues - non-EU contraband and counterfeit increased to 88%. 53 billion illegal cigarettes were...