Brussels, 30/10/2007 (Agence Europe) - On Wednesday 24 October, the European Parliament adopted an own initiative report at its plenary in Strasbourg on the Commission's Green Paper on strategic options at EU level for moving towards a tobacco smoke-free EU. The report by German Christian Democrat Karl-Heinz Florenz, adopted by 561 to 63 votes with 36 abstentions, points out that some 650,000 people die every year in the EU from cigarette smoking, along with 80,000 who die due to the effects...