Pressure is mounting on the future tobacco product tracking and follow-up system, which is supposed to be presented by the “end of the summer”. The industry and the anti-smoking lobby do not share the same points of view on the characteristics to which such a system should respond, according to the exchanges of views at the European Parliament on Tuesday 11 July.
It should be pointed out that the directive on tobacco products (2014/ 40/EU) introduces a raft of measures to tackle the...