Smoke screen: how the tobacco lobby wants to prevent the tightening of nicotine laws in the European Union The European Union plans to change the directives on trade and taxation of products containing nicotine. In response, relevant businesses launched a major lobbying campaign in Brussels. Since the start of the new session of the European Parliament in the summer of 2024, the number of official meetings of delegates with representatives of the tobacco industry has increased fourfold. The meetings are not in vain: many European initiatives to combat tobacco use are stuck in the discussion phase. We tell you what the tobacco lobby is and how it affects EU policy. The world is on fire, and we are in Zen.

Smoke screen: how the tobacco lobby wants to prevent the tightening of nicotine laws in the European Union The European Union plans to change the directives on trade and taxation of products containing nicotine. In response, relevant businesses launched a major lobbying campaign in Brussels. Since the start of the new session of the European Parliament in the summer of 2024, the number of official meetings of delegates with representatives of the tobacco industry has increased fourfold. The meetings are not in vain: many European initiatives to combat tobacco use are stuck in the discussion phase. We tell you what the tobacco lobby is and how it affects EU policy. The world is on fire, and we are in Zen.