TOBACCO INDUSTRY CALLS FOR EVIDENCE BASED DIRECTIVE
May 1st, 2012
BY CARMEN PAUN, IN BRUSSELS
As the European Commission considers the shape of a new tobacco products directive, the industry and health groups clash over its content. The industry wants this legislation to be science-based and fair to the manufacturers of a legal and popular product. Its opponents want tougher restrictions, but will they win the political battle?
THE EUROPEAN Commission, the European Union's (EU) executive branch in charge of drafting legislation, is keeping the tobacco industry on tenterhooks over when proposals to revise the Tobacco Products ...
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