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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 10629

8 June 2012
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SECTORAL POLICIES / (ae) agriculture
WHO recommendations worry tobacco growers

Brussels, 07/06/2012 (Agence Europe) - Unitab, the European association of tobacco growers, has responded to the latest recommendations from the World Health Organisation (WHO) on the sector. The WHO working group on the framework convention on tobacco control (FCTC), which recently agreed on a draft protocol, has taken a swipe at the industry in proposing a raft of measures which, Unitab says, will harm the 85,000 European tobacco growers and their 400,000 workers.

“We have obtained the...

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