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"Mr President, I would like to thank the President-in-Office for his support this morning and throughout the last few months. I do hope we will start good negotiations and have a quick resolution. I also wish to thank Commissioner Borg for his very frank debate here this morning and for putting the legislation on the table and enabling us to – hopefully – complete it before the end of this parliamentary term. And I would like to thank all colleagues who have shown their support this morning from across the House. That shows this is a balanced proposal. I hear people saying it is not flexible, but we took on board many comments from many people, so the outcome can be supported across Parliament.
I want to say an extra special ‘thank you’ to the shadow rapporteurs, some of whom are not here now, but who really have worked very hard, and to their staff and the staff of the groups. Particular mention should be made of Kiri Hanks, my researcher who has worked extremely hard, and Emilia Romano from the secretariat of the Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety and Ulrike Schoner from the Socialist Group. People often forget how many hours go into preparing a voting list, and all the staff and all colleagues have worked very hard.
Finally, we have heard many figures this morning and many different points have been made, but Europe is not ahead on tobacco policy. We are lagging behind the United States. We are lagging behind many Latin American countries. This morning it is time to play catch-up. In my country, 570 children start smoking every day. Mr Krahmer asked: ‘Where is the evidence about warnings?’ I have sent him some. He has disappeared now but I hope he has read it in the past hour.
There is lots of evidence. The independent evidence from doctors is very strong, while the rest comes from the tobacco industry. Please believe doctors – people who have public health at heart. The Commissioner said, and other colleagues have said: ‘Let us choose life this morning’. Let us put the interests of citizens and future generations of citizens first."@en1
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