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More than 70% of traders in Belgium ignored the ban on selling cigarettes to minors (under 18) during a series of recent spot checks, according to recent government statistics.
Following a two-year postponement of a draft for the new Tobacco Excise Directive (TED), the EU’s new batch of commissioners can finally be expected to tackle the thorny issue of tobacco regulatio
Police officers seized 2,989 packets of imported and untaxed cigarettes in a targeted raid in Schaerbeek on 3 October.
Some 13% of cigarettes smoked in Belgium are illegal, resulting in an estimated loss of €435m to the state in excise duties, according to a report by KPMG commissioned by Philip Morris Internation
Some 3.3 million illegal cigarettes have been discovered in a Hasselt warehouse during a local police operation, reports RTBF.
A public display of 90,000 cigarette butts has been erected in Place de la Monnaie in Brussels as part of a large-scale awareness and clean-up campaign organised by the city of Brussels.
Some 65% of smokers in Europe believe that EU decision makers do not consider the impact to smokers when deciding rules and regulations on tobacco and nicotine-containing products.
Smoke-free products such as electronic cigarettes and vaping devices are no longer a novelty, but how they are regulated around the world is a continually changing story.
Only 14% of EU citizens are aware that the illicit tobacco market costs member states over €10 billion a year in lost revenue, according to a new independent survey.
