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"Madam President, usually when I get up and criticise EU directives I can see a logic to them. It is usually a twisted and bad logic, but there is still a logic. There are a number of areas in this report which I believe actually defy logic. Firstly, the banning of tens. To me it makes no sense. You are not going to stop people smoking by banning 10 cigarettes. What you are going to do is encourage them to buy 20. So in effect what we are doing is, we are criticising places like McDonalds for supersizing their product but we are encouraging the tobacco industry to do the same. And all it will do is make poor people poorer. As regards the menthol cigarettes issue, a million people in the UK smoke menthol cigarettes. They are not going to stop overnight if you ban them, they will go to conventional cigarettes and you will increase the size of the black market.
Finally, e-cigarettes: e-cigarettes are proving, according to latest research, to be the most effective way of stopping people from smoking. Therefore, why on earth would you make them medicinal? Why would you make it harder to stop people smoking? I would ask my colleagues please to vote against this. It is ill-thought out, it is counterproductive and it is contradictory."@en1
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