EU wants to stop the sale of løssnus in Denmark!

[chainsnuser]

According to the newspaper Politiken, The EU (in person of John Dalli) currently wants to stop the sale of løssnus in Denmark by the use of juristic tricks (similar to what took place in Finland in March). John Dalli takes the view that the exemption from the snus-ban for traditional products in the single national markets (as in the 1992 tobacco directive) has already been nullified with the 2001 directive. Obviously Danish politicians from all political wings try to prevent this nonsense.

http://politiken.dk/tjek/sundhedogmo...nus-i-danmark/

I hope the best for our Danish friends and I also hope that this is not a bad sign regarding the anticipated lift of the EU-snus-ban in 2012. Hopefully John Dalli stands alone in the EU-commission and is only once more fighting his private fight against smokeless tobacco. I really wonder what went wrong in John Dalli's childhood that he now pursues this lunatic health policy.

Cheers!

[ABW]

He's probably being paid off by the cigarette companies...

[Frosted]

A bill proposing selling cigarettes only by a prescription from a doctor has been drafted in Iceland.

[Ansel]

So they want to ban los AND portions or just los?

[ABW]

A bill proposing selling cigarettes only by a prescription from a doctor has been drafted in Iceland.

How weird is that.. I really worry about that little island...

[Frosted]

They're campaigning for that in Britain as well ABW.

[ABW]

They're campaigning for that in Britain as well ABW.

I'm worried about both those little islands then...lol... By chance do you know what the prescribed medical use would be?

[Frosted]

They're trying to do it under the same prescription methods as for NRT.

[ABW]

Humm.. Does not seem like the England I remember... When I was there last they were throwing Marlboro reds at me from behind the bar at the the Three Stags Waterloo...lol...



Edit-- I was laughing about that late night memory in London when my wife informed me that it was not at the three stags.. That was a respectable place she said.. I still think it was but maybe I am wrong.. I do know that it was right across the street form the Days Hotel in Waterloo.. Any ideas?

[lxskllr]

So they want to ban los AND portions or just los?

Portions are already verboten in Daneland. Los was exempted due to historic use, so that douchebag just wants to eradicate snus :^S

[ABW]

If that moron keeps getting his way the only country that will have Snus will be the good old USA... How ironic would that be.. Hopefully by that time it will be made the traditional way...

[Frosted]

Waterloo ain't that nice ABW. I didn't drink there.
When I was at Wellington Barracks St James's Park we drank around Victoria and the houses of Parliament.

[ABW]

Waterloo ain't that nice ABW. I didn't drink there.
When I was at Wellington Barracks St James's Park we drank around Victoria and the houses of Parliament.

Hey.. It was free..We were at tradeshow so it was good enough for me.. Actually, I liked those guys at the pub.. By the end of the night one of our British host was controlling the taps and the boddingtons was flowing freely...

Good Times..

[ABW]

Really? How does AG Snus make it there then? Some kind of exception? Seems silly of a big company like that to set up a brand new factory in Denmark when they tightening the noose...

[ABW]

Portions are already verboten in Daneland. Los was exempted due to historic use, so that douchebag just wants to eradicate snus :^S

Really? How does AG Snus make it there then? Some kind of exception? Seems silly of a big company like that to set up a brand new factory in Denmark when they tightening the noose...