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"Mr President, to quote the musician David Byrne, the true face of smoking is disease, death and horror, not the glamour and sophistication that pushers in the tobacco industry try to portray. Every year 700 000 people die in Europe from tobacco-related diseases and one in two smokers dies due to the effects of smoking.
I therefore voted for the maximum regulation of this industry, including larger health warnings and the plain packaging of cigarettes. There has been a massive lobbying exercise here by the tobacco industry. Nine tobacco firms, 22 tobacco industry lobby groups, and 12 PR firms, including former senior Fine Gael advisors, have been spending millions of euros in lobbying and wining and dining MEPs. A leaked document revealed that just one of these firms, tobacco giant Philip Morris, has had meetings with 233 MEPs, one-third of this Parliament, all of this taking place behind closed doors in the most untransparent manner possible. This access for the tobacco industry shows where the priority for many of the establishment parties lie. For them, the maintenance of profits for one of the most contemptible sections of capitalism comes before the health of ordinary people."@en1
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