By 2025, it will no longer be possible to purchase disposable electronic cigarettes colored with various flavors, called “puffs”, in France. This was announced by French Minister of Health Aurélien Rousseau within the scope of the National Tobacco Control Programme, which also envisages further increasing taxes on cigarettes and similar products. According to Rousseau, panting […]
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WHO goes too far? ‘An attempt to limit freedom of expression’
The proposals to expand restrictions on advertising, promotion and sponsorship of tobacco products that the World Health Organization wants to adopt go too far and constitute an attempt to restrict freedom of expression, says former Deputy Minister of Finance and member of the Monetary Policy Council Elżbieta Chojna . -Duch. – Freedom of expression is […]
Will we lose billions of zlotys because of the WHO and the European Commission?
As a result of the latest ideas from the World Health Organization (WHO) and the actions of the European Commission, Poland could lose tens of billions of zlotys and a strategic industry. These institutions aim to achieve, among other things, the following: to eliminate tobacco cultivation in Poland and Europe, to eliminate manufacturing jobs or […]
Raw tobacco, Philip Morris Italia invests 500 million in 5 years
Philip Morris Italy and the Ministry of Agriculture, Food Sovereignty and Forests sign a new agreement – again of a multiannual nature, in continuity with the agreements signed by the Company more than a decade ago – renewing the commitment to competitiveness, transformation and sustainability of the chain tobacco production in Italy. The agreement represents […]
Maneuver, the price of cigarettes goes up. Sting for cut tobacco
Special consumption taxes on cigarettes are reduced, those on tobacco are raised, with almost zero global financial effects on the State’s accounts: it is one of the measures envisaged by the maxi-fiscal amendment to the Budget Law that would alter the way in which excise taxes are calculated on consumption on cigarettes and minced meat. […]
New Zealand bans cigarettes: “Our health care system will save 5 billion a year”
Banned the sale of tobacco to those born in 2009. This is how the country wants to become “smoke-free” A law that will cause discussion. In fact, New Zealand has just decided to ban the sale of cigarettes to all those born from 2009 onwards. A stop that, therefore, involves those who are currently 14 […]
Tobacco Excise Duties, JTI Italia’s Appeal to the Government: “Comparison Table”
“Worry about industry-wide effects.” This is how JTI Italia, second player in the tobacco market in Italy, defines the Budget Bill circulated in the last few hours, which provides for a monstrous increase in excise taxes on manufactured tobacco, especially on traditional cigarettes. The sector is aware of the serious situation the country is going […]