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Courts in EU, India Uphold Anti-tobacco Laws

Accepted submission by butthurt at 2016-05-06 20:03:44
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butthurt [soylentnews.org] writes:

On 4 May the European Court of Justice turned down challenges to the 2014 revision [europa.eu] of the Tobacco Products Directive. The law entails enlargement of warnings, prohibition of menthol cigarettes, prohibition of packages holding fewer than 20 cigarettes, restrictions on advertising of electronic cigarettes, and limits on the nicotine content of fluid for electronic cigarettes. It enables EU countries to require plain packaging. The court said the regulations were necessary to comply with the World Health Organization Framework Convention on Tobacco Control [wikipedia.org].

Also on 4 May, India's Supreme Court declined to further delay the implementation of a requirement for larger warning messages on cigarette packages. Several cigarette manufacturers including ITC Ltd. [wikipedia.org] have shut down their factories. The chairman of ITC decried the requirement, saying:

Behind this is vested interests... where money is given into the hands of so-called NGOs, who are being influenced to kill local brands knowing fully well that smuggled cigarettes of some other industry are going to be used here.

Golden Tobacco in Gujarat has been following the rule, which had originally been intended to take effect 1 April 2016, "from April 2015 [sic]."

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