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"It was important that the tobacco industry was not able to prevent the vote taking place in Parliament today.
More than half a million people died as a result of tobacco addiction in the EU in 1990. Despite huge lobbying by the tobacco industry, including an attempt to say the process is illegal, the European Parliament will stand firm on public health.
I welcome the commitment to increase information in cigarette labelling. Health warnings will take up 40% of the front of the packet and 50% of the back. The industry must be made to give details of the ingredients of the cigarettes, including the tobacco, and just as importantly the filters and additives used to make them.
Each individual brand should list all additives, not just the prohibited ingredients. This must be made public knowledge and not hidden behind a shroud of ‘trade secrecy’. People have a right to accurate information on the health risks of tobacco.
The Greens want to ban many of the more than 600 additives in cigarettes. We need to know what these substances are and make sure that they are properly tested. Smokers have a right to know exactly what a cigarette contains."@en1
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