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A hollow victory: EU Commission recommendation to ban vaping everywhere agreed by Member States, but with huge caveats
The European Commission’s recommendation that Member States ban vaping everywhere has been agreed, but only because multiple Member States added riders saying that they’ll essentially refuse to implement it.
Parliament won’t support the European Commission’s plan to ban vaping everywhere. What happened?
When I wrote earlier this week that the European Parliament should reject the Commission’s plan to ban vaping in all public spaces across Europe, I did not expect them to take my advice.
The EU Commission wants to ban vaping everywhere. MEPs should stand up to them.
The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People - a well known self-help book - has thoughts on scheduling. “The key is not to prioritize what's on your schedule”, according to its author Stephen Covey, “but to schedule your priorities”.
EXCLUSIVE: EU vape ban proposals lack “robust scientific basis” say Italian and Romanian governments
The EU’s proposals to ban vaping in all public spaces “lack a robust scientific basis” and “should not have been included” in the European Commission’s proposal for Smoke Free Environments
Calling out fake news part 6: prohibitionists getting owned by community notes
It’s been a while since we collected that latest prohibitionist fails on X. But that doesn’t mean there haven’t been any recently. The disinformation scene has been alive and kicking, and we thought it was about time we shone a light on it again.