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Banning What Works: Smokers Across Europe Are Being Left Behind
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Banning What Works: Smokers Across Europe Are Being Left Behind
The debate over how to regulate nicotine is reaching a fever pitch across Europe, with a growing disconnect between public health intentions and the actual outcomes of proposed policies. In countries like Croatia and Spain, recent regulatory moves—rushed consultations, heavy taxation, and near-prohibitionist restrictions on safer alternatives—risk derailing tobacco harm reduction efforts that could save […]
The Green and Left Party parliamentary groups in the Bundestag are calling for higher taxes on tobacco products, expanded smoking bans, and consistent enforcement of advertising bans. "Higher prices are one of the most effective means of discouraging smoking, especially among young people," Janosch Dahmen, health policy spokesperson for the Green Party, told the "Redaktionsnetzwerk Deutschland" (Redaktionsnetzwerk Deutschland). "The resulting ad…
Greens and leftists agree that higher tobacco taxes, more smoking and consistent advertising bans are needed. This is what the WHO recommends. Only in e-cigarettes do opinions differ.
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