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"Madam President, although the large tobacco companies can lay claim to numerous victories over the course of this directive – namely the many delays we have experienced – we are finally here, and I wish to thank Linda McAvan for getting us ready to vote on crucial legislation which could help protect generations of young people.
It is true that the aims of the tobacco industry can never be reconciled with those of public health. The measures proposed by this directive would reduce, after five years, the number of people smoking by 2.4 million and result in a net increase of 2 243 jobs created, due to increased disposable income spent on other goods and services. This would have a positive impact on that 20 % of most deprived areas in EU constituencies where the rate of smoking-related deaths is double that of the least deprived areas.
Without doubt, the amount of lobbying by tobacco companies has reached unprecedented levels. Here are some of the goodies that were sent to me – but I will say that I will vote to save lives and to deliver for those constituents who are anxious to see new tobacco control measures implemented.
In Europe each year, the total deaths caused by road accidents, drugs, murders, suicide and accidents at work do not come to a fifth of those caused by tobacco: 700 000 of our constituents die every year from tobacco-related diseases. That is 700 000 people – mothers, fathers, brothers, sisters, aunts, uncles, grandparents and children. Some of them are known to us – as we have heard in the Chamber today – and yet there are MEPs who still find it difficult to vote in favour of public health measures to combat these avoidable and unnecessary deaths.
This legislation is not reinventing the wheel: the measures proposed are necessary and effective. 75 % picture and text health warnings, banning characterising flavours like chocolate, bubble gum and vanilla, and a ban on slims, will prevent such attractive gimmicks being used by the tobacco industry to get children and young people addicted to their deadly product."@en1
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