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…
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 political reaction to France’s ban on nicotine pouches has now taken a decisive turn. What began as concern over…
Despite extensive discussion and feedback, the proposed tax levels for nicotine pouches remain unchanged from earlier compromise texts. This is not a minor technical detail. It signals that, at least for now, the core approach is to ignore scientific evidence and relative risk.
The Swedish government has issued a Detailed Opinion on Austria’s proposed regulation of nicotine pouches under the EU’s TRIS notification…
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