The press did not mention almost nothing. Yet if it is one of the most important regulatory measures on tobacco of the last years. We speak of the Legislative Decree n. 6 of 12 January 2016 transposing the European Directive 2014/40 / EU whose provisions, except for some exemption will apply as from next May 20, 2016 , with the declared aim of ensuring a high level of health protection means more restrictions and warnings to dissuade consumers (and in particular young people) from the purchase and consumption of products made from tobacco and nicotine.
Among the main changes, contained herein, include the introduction on cigarette packs, rolling tobacco and pipe tobacco of the “combined warnings “ on health with lots of text, color photograph and phone number of the green against smoking (800,554,088).
If you’re curious to observe the warnings (which will occupy 65% face and back of packages and any outside packaging) can view them below just to give you an idea. (Read here).
The new regulation provides, in particular:
1) the ban on additives that make it more “attractive” and “more harmful” the tobacco product (eg: caffeine, vitamins, colorants emissions, as well as additives which facilitate the inhalation or absorption of nicotine and have carcinogenic, mutagenic or toxic);
2) the ban usage of “characterizing flavor” in cigarettes and rolling tobacco due to an additive or combination of additives, such as fruit, spices, herbs etc;
3) a ban on the use in ‘labeling and misleading promotional items , as referring to the health benefits or the lifestyle, a taste or a smell etc.
what, however, I can not explain it is the reason why, according to the new transposition of European legislation, is imposed the ban to affix labels on the information concerning the tar, nicotine and carbon monoxide . According to the EU this information should be considered misleading for consumers who, in comparing multiple products, tend to prefer the one with lesser amounts of these substances, considering it less harmful, but the inevitable consequence of this principle is that, in fact, the consumer cigarette is not put in a position to know what you smoke, they have to test on their skin any cigarette without making any account of the fact also that smoking more harmful that is on the market.
After all, one thing it is removed from the pack of cigarettes promotional information such as “low tar”, “light”, “ultra-light”, “mild”, “natural”, “organic”, “no additives”, “no flavorings” or “slim”, the other is completely erase the information on tar, nicotine and carbon monoxide . They are two completely different planes. They ‘good to keep in mind that the highest levels of emissions of tar, nicotine and carbon monoxide required by law must not exceed 10 mg tar, 1 mg of nicotine and 10 mg per cigarette and controls carbon monoxide are made by monopolies State.
the new legislation also speaks of authorized laboratories and supervised by the Institute of health that, in addition to verifying the emission levels, operate any further measurements to determine the level of other harmful substances whose requirements structural, technological and functional must be identified with a specific regulatory decree of the Minister of Health, in consultation with the Minister of Economy and Finance.
Actually, even the previous Legislative decree no. 184 / 2003 had foreseen the issue of a decree on the eligibility requirements of these laboratories, with which, however, should have been even more evidence that may be required to establish the producers or importers of tobacco, in order to determine the content of other substances , contained in or derived from their tobacco products, broken down by brand and type, and the verification of their effects on health, taking into account inter alia the danger of addiction involved. But to date, and for 13 years, the decree in question was never issued.
I wonder: “Where checks are made on the maximum levels of nicotine emissions, tar and carbon monoxide and hopefully also on all the other ingredients contained in cigarettes, because of all this does not give account on the sale package to the tobacconist, as well deleting references to the levels of tar, nicotine and carbon monoxide?.
consumers are not deficient, and if you continue to speak only of the effects of smoking without providing detailed information, you can also post the most impressive images to induce people not to smoke, but the results for public health will be increasingly disappointing.
If people do not know that smoking does not do prevention and will also soon to also get rid of the images: buy a door-cigarettes and, after hiding the package , will continue to smoke, blatantly ignoring what you put in the body . Bella found.
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