TOBACCO CONTROLS IN NON-EU EASTERN EUROPE STILL TOUGH – BUT VARY SIGNIFICANTLY BETWEEN COUNTRIES
November 1st, 2016
THE EUROPEAN Union (EU) and its member states have been keen adopters of rules restricting how tobacco companies make, market and sell their wares, but to what extent have the EU’s neighbours to the east and southeast followed suit?
The answer is – largely – yes: controls have increased – but the extent to which this has happened and the details of restrictions vary widely from country to country.
In the EU’s largest neighbour, Russia, an ‘anti-tobacco’ law (‘on health protection of citizens from exposure to environmental tobacco smoke and the ...
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