Posted on 06/22/2013 3:00:31 AM PDT by Olog-hai
EU ministers of health have reached political agreement to strengthen EU tobacco legislation in an effort to curb the number of smokers.
“I do believe that this is truly an important step because it is about stopping the next generation ever getting hooked,” Irish health minsiter James Reilly, chairing the talks, told reporters on Friday (21 June).
The ministers endorsed a deal that would ban menthol, fruit, or chocolate flavored cigarettes.
Other rules include imposing large graphic warnings. The European Commission had proposed a warning to cover 75 percent of the package but health ministers agreed to 65 percent. Member states are free to implement a larger size. …
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Menthol cigarettes! bad...............meth, heroin, pot, oxycoton, vicadin, opium, good. Guess they tried to make money under the table on this but it wasnt lucrative.
Are they going to ban flavored shisha as well? Bet not!
EU should be banning Muslims. Cigarettes are not good for you....but one cigarette will not rape and decapitate you
Wait till they can’t get their cigarettes. muslims unhinged.
Ban Menthol cigarettes?
That’s racist.
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