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"Mr President, yesterday’s Commission Green Paper on second-hand smoke asserts that comprehensive smoking bans are the best way to tackle this serious danger to health. I agree.
There are nearly five million tobacco-related deaths worldwide, but governments still fail to implement tobacco control policies that are known and proven to work. Tobacco companies have seriously thwarted efforts to protect health. At this very moment, the British American Tobacco website downplays the serious risks of second-hand smoke, saying that if there is any risk it is too small to measure. Second-hand smoke causes 79 000 deaths a year in the EU; statistics show that passive smoking causes one death every working day in the hospitality sector: is that too small to measure? I think not!
Furthermore, a recent study by the Harvard School of Public Health found that tobacco companies had increased the nicotine hit in their cigarettes by 11% between 1995 and 2005. This study found that cigarettes had been redesigned to increase the number of puffs per unit, thereby increasing the nicotine intake of the smoker. This disturbing evidence comes as no surprise. Tobacco companies have lied consistently down the years about the danger of their products.
Anything less than an outright ban would mean failing to protect those most vulnerable and exposed to serious risks, and this Parliament has a duty to promote and protect the health of our citizens."@en1
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