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Plain packaging of tobacco products in the European Union: an EU success story?

2017; European Respiratory Society; Volume: 50; Issue: 5 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1183/13993003.01232-2017

1399-3003

Constantine Vardavas, Filippos T Filippidis, Brian Ward, Marine Faure, Carlos A. Jiménez-Ruíz, Christina Gratziou, Paraskevi Κatsaounou, Francisco Lozano, Panagiotis Behrakis, Cornel Radu-Loghin,

Consumer Attitudes and Food Labeling

In March 2017, the European Union (EU) celebrated its 60th anniversary. The frenzied focus in recent times has been on crises, from economics to migration, terrorism and the UK leaving the EU. However, in contrast to the increase in Euroscepticism are the EU's successes, which should and must be celebrated. One of the major victories from a public health perspective is the harmonisation of tobacco control policy across the 28 EU member states (MSs) through the Tobacco Products Directive (TPD) and the Tobacco Tax Directive, which, through the regulation of tobacco products, protect the health of the 511 million EU citizens. Plain packaging of tobacco products: an EU success story The ERS Tobacco Control Committee members are Carlos Jimenez-Ruiz, Christina Gratziou, Constantine Vardavas, Sofia Ravara (Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Beira Interior and CHCB University Hospital, Covilhã, Portugal), Bo Lundbäck (Krefting Research Centre, Institute of Medicine, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden), Paraskevi Katsaounou, Dick Heederik (Institute for Risk Assessment Sciences, Division Environmental Epidemiology, Utrecht, the Netherlands), Dan Smyth (European Lung Foundation, Sheffield, UK), Werner Bill (ERS, Lausanne, Switzerland) and José Ignacio de Granda (Respiratory Dept, 12 October University Hospital, Medical School of Complutense University, Madrid, Spain). The ENSP Scientific Committee Members are Panagiotis Behrakis, Bertrand Dautzenberg (Groupe hospitalier Pitié-Salpétrière, Paris, France), Luke Clancy (TobaccoFree Research Institute Ireland, Dublin, Ireland), Nazmi Bilir (Hacettepe, University Institute of Public Health, Ankara, Turkey), Manfred Neuberger (Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria), Andrey Demin (Russian Public Health Association, Moscow, Russia), Jørgen Falk (ENSP, Brussels, Belgium) and Francisco Javier Ayesta (University of Cantabria, Santander, Spain).