tobacco excise directive Share Your Views on the EU's New Proposal on Taxation EU countries scale back tobacco

Our political leaders court the nicotine addict's vote, accept and spend their tax dollars on every important cause but saving them, are now considering a substantial increase in the nicotine addiction tax without providing any avenue of escape, and continue ignoring the six thousand annual deaths that they know they have the ability to help prevent

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The CDC stresses the health issues associated with nicotine--citing impacts on brain development and addiction--which in youth can begin quickly among young people, sometimes before the start of regular or daily use

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