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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 8197

22 April 2002
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GENERAL NEWS / (eu) ep/tobacco
Usual divisions over tobacco advertising

Brussels, 22/04/2002 (Agence Europe) - The hearing on banning tobacco advertising that was organised last week by the European Parliament's Legal Committee demonstrated that the usual divisions remain over this issue. The medical world calling for greater measures to be taken against smoking is pitted, as ever, against industry and its talk of loss of jobs. Alexander Macara (Standing Committee of European Doctors) said that tobacco was responsible for more than half a million deaths a year...

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