The EU is right to be ashamed of its evaluation report on nicotine policy. Even its own watchdogs have disowned it.
Two years ago, I wrote about the EU Commission burying its own smoking data, and opined on why they might have…
The Hungarian Commissioner and Orbán loyalist has been at the vanguard of spreading outright falsehoods about safer nicotine products. Now Orbán is gone, will he go too?
Many in Brussels were popping champagne last night as quasi-dictator Viktor Orbán was decisively ejected…
In this episode of Clearing the Air, host Peter Beckett sits down with Swedish MEP Charlie Weimers to dive into the latest friction over EU nicotine regulation. They skip the basics and get straight into why the Commission’s current trajectory is so…
The European Parliament’s lead legislator on the EU’s plans to levy higher taxes on safer nicotine products has shocked vapers by proposing to increase taxes on vapes in his report on the Commission’s plans to amend Europe’s tobacco and nicotine taxes.
While…
My sources in Brussels tell me that the European Commission’s report on how well its tobacco laws are doing should drop early spring. Maybe even as soon as March. This will be the starting gun in a race to overhaul the bloc’s…
David Zaruk (aka the Risk Monger) has been an EU risk and science communications specialist since 2000, active in EU policy events from REACH and SCALE to the Pesticides Directive. He is the editor of The Firebreak. He recently published an investigation…
See how the EU’s nicotine tax proposals will affect you, and tell your MEP about it, with our interactive tool.
Europe’s new taxes on vapes and heated tobacco - scheduled to come in from 2030 - would be significantly lower than originally…
Summary:
The EU Commission has announced that it will propose changes to the EU’s laws on safer nicotine products next year, a year earlier than previously expected.
There’s a good chance that the Commission will want to take a maximalist approach and…
In part 2 of this conversation, Peter Beckett speaks with Dr Derek Yach, former Head of Tobacco Control at the World Health Organization and founding president of the Foundation for a Smoke-Free World. They discuss the moment his thinking diverged from the…