A joint letter to the European Commission calls for a “market freeze” on new nicotine products, broad flavour bans, strict…
Six European consumer organisations have filed a complaint with the European Ombudsman, arguing that the Commission’s consultation on future tobacco and nicotine legislation is methodologically incapable of producing reliable evidence. The complaint also strongly criticises DG SANTE’s language and its response to the concerns raised.
Nicotine pouches are tobacco free products used by many former smokers precisely because they want to move away from tobacco. Poland now proposes that these products should effectively be required to taste like the substance consumers are trying to leave behind.
In its answer to a parliamentary question on the French ban, the Commission treats Article 36 TFEU as a shortcut around evidence. Public health cannot be assessed as if cigarettes, combustion and 80 million European smokers did not exist.
A new Tamarind Intelligence survey, published on the World Nicotine Congress website, gives a timely insight into how Members of…
This year’s Almedalen Week made one thing difficult to ignore: nicotine pouches remains a serious political issue in Sweden. Almedalen…
After long negotiations on a fundamentally flawed proposal from the European Commission, it now seems that the Tobacco Excise Directive…
The role of public policy should be to make sure adults understand risk, to ensure that minors are protected and for sure allowing that the highest risk products are displaced by much lower risk alternatives. In particular when consumer driven. That transition should be encouraged, not prevented.
Somewhere deep inside the Council working groups, the EU’s tobacco and nicotine policy process appears to have crossed a line from complicated into outright absurd.
The reshuffle within DG Santé is therefore more than procedural. It signals a process under strain, but also an opportunity to correct course. Whether the Commission restores confidence or deepens the credibility gap will depend on what happens next.