KYPRIANOU QUESTIONNAIRE
September 1st, 2004
BY KEITH NUTHALLTHE INCOMING European Commissioner for health and consumer affairs has shown signs in a European Parliament questionnaire that he could be as feisty as his predecessor, Ireland's David Byrne, calling for an EU-wide ban on smoking in public. Belying the laid-back image of Cypriots, Markos Kyprianou has revealed a number of environmental health-related policy initiatives he intends to follow after assuming office on November 1. Notably, he appears as robustly opposed to the tobacco industry as Byrne, saying he wanted to see the public smoking bans ...
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