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  • Published on: 18 September 2024
    The tobacco endgame … a reassuring smoke screen?

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    How can the special communication promoting the 2040 Tobacco- Free Generation goal of the European Union (1) flew in the face of the warning “we are still waiting for the European political commitment to quit tobacco.”(2)

    Firstly, the communication of the goal by the Commission in 2021 remains empty words yet. Of note, the most recent directive for tobacco control, proposed by the Commission in 2012, only became applicable in 2016.

    Secondly, promises only bind those who believe in them. Europe will be the only WHO region not to reach the global non-communicable diseases target by 2025,(2) Could the new goal be achievable : a) when smoking prevalence only decreased form 24% in 2010 to 19% in 2020;(3) b) when the reduction in nicotine content, a silver bullet vs young uptake, is totally ignored and when responses about measures were only obtained from 19 of 27 EU Member states,(1) questioning their implication.(1) As a French, I want to stress that in 2019, France was among the six countries globally with a smoking prevalence above 33% among people aged 15-24.(4) Its recent plan raises cigarette retail prices to €12 in 2025, and to €13 in 2026, is less than the 10% threshold for a 4% impact on sales, not to account the present high inflation rates that seriously blunt the true increase. This deliberate strategy from experts in Laffer curve accounts for the low price elasticity of a highly addictive substance in order to increase reven...

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