Category: Tobacco

  • New EU Ombudsman must carry on transparency crusade against Big Tobacco lobbying

    A decade after outgoing Emily O’Reilly’s transformative period in Brussels, the EU Parliament has elected the bloc’s new European Ombudsman for the next five years. In the December 15 vote, Portuguese candidate Teresa Anginho won appeared She prevailed, with strong support from the dominant European People’s Party, helping the former…

  • Petitioner seeks to suspend tobacco websites, blogs

    The Ministry of Health and the Tobacco Control Authority have been given 14 days to respond to a petition requesting the suspension of all websites, blogs and social media accounts of manufacturers and distributors of tobacco and related products, including shisha products, that do not display health warning labels and…