Eu revision of tobacco products directive

[smith_j]

I have just gone onto the E.U website.......and made my voice heard(as if i can hahaha) regarding this.......also went onto the Forest website.....to sign the pertition(many thanks to them at the smokers group.....to include us Snussers....it all adds weight to solve the problem of the E.U attitude to snus ,smoking and freedom of choice(and that thing called human rights......they tend to forget...when it comes to tobacco users

[alexdal]

I wrote to some Italian Europarlamentaianr (Euro-PM?), Writing about Snus and that some Svedish Minister will ask to stop the ban, they answered me thatt they will approve the use of snus.
I think you also have to do the same with Euro PM of your country.
If 100.000 people will push the end of the ban maybe we'll can buy snus every where in Europe.
But if we was only 100 people noone will listen us.

[Frosted]

There's something new I saw from GN's Facebook friends but I can't read it as I'd need to subscribe.

http://online.wsj.com/article/BT-CO-...30-703810.html

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http://www.nordstjernan.com/news/organizations/3388/

Fighting for Swedish 'snus'
More snus to the people. Says Ewa Björling, Minister of Trade, dentist, Doctor of Medicine, docent in virology.
Fighting for Swedish 'snus'
The Swedish government is getting ready to fight for the Swedish snus (or moist snuff, if you will, the smokeless tobacco). Minister of Trade Ewa Björling wants snus to be readily available to buy in other European Union countries. “There are more dangerous products than snus sold in today’s European Union," says the politician, who is also a dentist and a doctor of medicine, docent in virology.

It’s been ten years since the tobacco laws in the EU were looked into; now it’s time to do so again. That’s why the Swedish government wants the chance to convince other countries to carry snus in their stores. The question about the Swedish snus is one of many on the EU minister meeting in Brussels next week.

A decision is expected to be made sometime during 2012.

'Snus' has become generally accepted into the English language in the U.S. since Swedish Match first introduced the Swedish manufactured product to the market a few years ago. Camel snus by R.J. Reynolds even Marlboro snus are no more, no less than linguistic copy cats. Quite the compliment to the product's origin.

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http://www.foxbusiness.com/markets/2...-snus-exports/

STOCKHOLM -(Dow Jones)- As the European Union is reviewing its regulations for products for the first time in 10 years, Sweden is urging it to drop a law preventing the Scandinavian country from exporting snus within the EU.
Sweden's minister for trade, Ewa Bjorling, Monday raised the question of snus as the EU's competition authorities met in Brussels. Sweden claims that prohibition of snus sales isn't compatible with the principles of free movement of goods and argues for a uniform regulation of all tobacco products as "a number of similar, often-more-dangerous products are allowed to circulate freely in the internal market."
Swedish snus, a moist powder tobacco used in Sweden and other Nordic countries for over 200 years, was banned within the EU in 1992. When Sweden entered the EU in 1995, the country was granted a permanent exemption from the ban, and the country is now fighting for the right to export its tobacco product to the rest of the EU.
Sweden lost SEK30 billion ($4.82 billion) in snus export revenue from 1995 to 2009, a report published in January 2010 by the Swedish Retail Institute shows. The report claims that Swedish exports to the EU would increased by 10% if snus were legalized.
The European Commission is expected to come up with a proposal for a new tobacco directive some time next year.
Bjorling wasn't immediately available to comment.

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