The cost and health benefits of getting people not to smoke and better still, not to start, more than outweigh the taxes the tobacco industry pays to governments, the European Commission said Monday. Irish Health Minister James Reilly, presenting the EU’s new draft tobacco law in the European parliament, said…
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