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"I voted against an export ban on stronger cigarettes for the following reasons:
The Commission has proposed banning exports of cigarettes with yields of over 10 milligrammes of tar, 1 milligramme of nicotine and 10 milligrammes of carbon dioxide to third countries. This would result in a massive erosion of EU cigarette exports and the loss of several tens of thousands of jobs.
This sort of ban benefits no one, because the cigarettes will simply be manufactured outside the EU. But the jobs will be lost here. The EU has absolutely no powers to enforce such a ban. It has nothing to do with the internal single market. The anti-tobacco fanatics should not act as if exporting cigarettes was tantamount to handing out cyanide. The EU is acting inconsistently, given that it also subsidises the cultivation and export of tobacco to the tune of EUR 1 billion.
The EU is using an export ban to act as the health missionary of the entire world. That is presumptuous and offends the customs and practices of other countries. The right move would be to promote the work on global uniform production standards for tobacco products already begun in the World Health Organisation. Unilateral action by the EU will be pointless."@en1
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