Brussels, 03/12/2002 (Agence Europe) - The progress made by the EU15 for stepping up the fight against tobacco use were welcomed by the Danish Presidency as the main result of the Health/Consumers Council on Monday. Not content with having reached a political agreement on the new directive, which will ban advertising and the sponsoring of international events by tobacco companies in the run up to 2005 (see yesterday's EUROPE, p.8), the Health Ministers adopted, by qualified majority (with...