More EU nonsense

[darmstadt]

From the Spectator? I'm shocked, SHOCKED!

They're starting to join the Breitbart, Zerohedge and other right wing press in their useless journalistic crusade to prove who is the crappiest...

[Old Greg]

Seems to be some selective journalism going on here, from the actual press release:

From the Spectator? I'm shocked, SHOCKED!

[darmstadt]

Seems to be some selective journalism going on here, from the actual press release:

The new 2014 directive on tobacco products seeks, first, to facilitate the smooth functioning of the internal market for tobacco and related products, taking as a base a high level of protection of human health and, secondly, to meet the obligations of the European Union under the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control.

That directive provides in particular for the prohibition from 20 May 2020 of the placing on the market of tobacco products with a characterising flavour and for the standardisation of the labelling and packaging of tobacco products. In addition, it introduces special rules for electronic cigarettes.

[Old Greg]

What are all these people talking about, and what business is it of theirs?

Manufacturers should be free to sell whatever packet sizes with whatever designs they want, without politicians and bureaucrats bossing them around.

And is that the same for all dangerous drugs?

[OwlHoot]

So on pack size, what would your considered view be on Wakefield MA, Morley C, Horan JK and Cummings KM, (2002), The Cigarette pack as image: new evidence from tobacco industry documents. Tobacco Control. 11(suppl.1):i73−i80?

What are all these people talking about, and what business is it of theirs?

Manufacturers should be free to sell whatever packet sizes with whatever designs they want, without politicians and bureaucrats bossing them around.

[original PM]

So on pack size, what would your considered view be on Wakefield MA, Morley C, Horan JK and Cummings KM, (2002), The Cigarette pack as image: new evidence from tobacco industry documents. Tobacco Control. 11(suppl.1):i73−i80?

Limited interest - instead of trying to harmonise things just put the details on the fookin packet and let me as an adult make a decision.

[DodgyAgent]

So on pack size, what would your considered view be on Wakefield MA, Morley C, Horan JK and Cummings KM, (2002), The Cigarette pack as image: new evidence from tobacco industry documents. Tobacco Control. 11(suppl.1):i73−i80?

It's about 8 minutes to four

[Old Greg]

Just to confirm my view that if you give people power they will exploit it.

https://health.spectator.co.uk/the-e...and-pointless/

This is not harmonisation and nor is it evidence-based policy-making. It is Brussels throwing its weight around with a botched compromise of a directive that will achieve nothing. There is no good reason why British shops should not be able to sell cigarettes in packs of ten or e-cigarette fluid in 20-millilitre bottles. Why can’t they just leave us alone?

So on pack size, what would your considered view be on Wakefield MA, Morley C, Horan JK and Cummings KM, (2002), The Cigarette pack as image: new evidence from tobacco industry documents. Tobacco Control. 11(suppl.1):i73−i80?

[original PM]

Just to confirm my view that if you give people power they will exploit it.

https://health.spectator.co.uk/the-e...and-pointless/

This is not harmonisation and nor is it evidence-based policy-making. It is Brussels throwing its weight around with a botched compromise of a directive that will achieve nothing. There is no good reason why British shops should not be able to sell cigarettes in packs of ten or e-cigarette fluid in 20-millilitre bottles. Why can’t they just leave us alone?

Because they are not interested in you or your civil liberties they are interested in getting the UK to continue to pay them lots of money so they can continue to debate tulip like this.

It is one of the reasons I am out - it is just pointless to spend money on something you do not want.

[OwlHoot]

Just to confirm my view that if you give people power they will exploit it.

https://health.spectator.co.uk/the-e...and-pointless/

This is not harmonisation and nor is it evidence-based policy-making. It is Brussels throwing its weight around with a botched compromise of a directive that will achieve nothing. There is no good reason why British shops should not be able to sell cigarettes in packs of ten or e-cigarette fluid in 20-millilitre bottles. Why can’t they just leave us alone?

Of course there's a reason - Every vape bottle sold means less tobacco tax revenue!

What a bunch of brazen hypocrites, insisting on large scary warnings and gruesome pictures on cigarette packets, and taxing smokers, while at the same time trying to limit practical alternatives to smoking!

[DodgyAgent]

Just to confirm my view that if you give people power they will exploit it.

https://health.spectator.co.uk/the-e...and-pointless/

This is not harmonisation and nor is it evidence-based policy-making. It is Brussels throwing its weight around with a botched compromise of a directive that will achieve nothing. There is no good reason why British shops should not be able to sell cigarettes in packs of ten or e-cigarette fluid in 20-millilitre bottles. Why can’t they just leave us alone?