Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2001-05-15-Speech-2-102"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2001-05-15"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:VOTE2
dcterms:Language	"de"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20010515.5.2-102"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2001-05-15-Speech-2-1032
lpv:speaker	lp:Astrid Lulling2
lpv:spokenAs	member; Delegation for relations with the countries of South America and MERCOSUR (1999-10-06--2002-01-14)3,3 member; EPP-ED (1999-09-16--2004-07-19)3,3 unknown; Parti chrétien social (1999-09-16--2004-07-19)3,3 substitute; AGRI (1999-10-07--2002-01-14)3,3 member; Committee on Women's Rights and Equal Opportunities (1999-10-07--2002-01-14)3,3 member; ECON (1999-10-07--2002-01-14)3,3
lpv:translated text	". Smokers incontestably run a greater risk of contracting lung cancer than non-smokers. This is a well-known fact, of which all smokers are only too well aware. The fight against cancer is one of the main challenges facing today’s society. I myself am actively involved, both inside and outside Parliament, in the struggle against breast cancer. However, as I have already emphasised in my comments on the report at the first and second readings, the prohibition methods prescribed in the joint text entail the imposition of unreasonable obligations on the European tobacco industry with no thought for the jobs they will cost and no prospect of their paying dividends by inducing more people in the EU to give up smoking. The proposal that EU-manufactured cigarettes be subject to the same tar, nicotine and carbon monoxide ceilings whether they are intended for domestic consumption or export is downright perverse. It is certainly a noble intention to want to take responsibility for the health of smokers in non-EU countries. But if this sense of mission leads to the tobacco industry relocating its manufacturing plants to the countries for which its cigarettes are intended, all we shall have achieved will be the loss of European jobs. In my little country alone, the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg, such a measure would result in the relocation of 12% of our cigarette-production capacity. That surely cannot be allowed to happen. For the fight against lung cancer, I am in favour of a targeted information campaign with adequate budgetary funding; it would be directed primarily at young people, making them aware of the danger that smoking poses to their health. But I am opposed to all the excessively radical measures contained in the joint text and cannot therefore endorse the report in its present form."@en1

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