Archive for August, 2007

Top Story N. 65: Ireland – the Health of Big Tobacco

An anti-smoking organization defends the "minimum price" of cigarettes.

ASH - "Action on Smoking and Health" has entered the anti-smoking field with a new chairman, Professor emeritus Luke Clancy: "Consultant Respiratory Physician at St. James’s Hospital and Medical Director of Peamount Hospital, Dublin."

Professor Luke Clancy
Professor Luke Clancy

The European Union has just undertaken legal action against Ireland (as well as Italy and Austria) for its cigarette minimum price policy, because it "distorts market competition and benefits only the manufacturers by safeguarding their profit margins".

The EU maintains that taxation on all cigarettes is the best way to set their prices… comparable to the discovery of hot water!

However, the authoritative Professor Luke Clancy explains that it's better if the price of Marlboros does not increase. Price increases must be made only for the so-called “economical” brands, and only with the imposition of the minimum price, not with heavier taxation.

Is, perhaps, the State suffering for too much tax revenue?

(Top Story N. 65: Irlanda: la Salute di Big Tobacco)

Organizzazione anti-smoking in difesa del "Prezzo minimo" delle sigarette.

"Action on Smoking and Health" (Azione su Fumo e Salute) è scesa in campo con il nuovo chairman, un emerito professore, tale Luke Clancy, "Consultant Respiratory Physician at St. James’s Hospital and Medical Director of Peamount Hospital, Dublin."

Professore Luke Clancy
Professore Luke Clancy

L'Unione Europea ha appena intrapreso un'azione legale contro l'Irlanda (oltre a Italia e Austria) per il prezzo minimo delle sigarette, perché "distorce la libera competizione ad unico vantaggio dei produttori, tutelando i loro margini di profitto".

L'EU ha indicato che la tassazione su tutte le sigarette è il modo migliore per determinare i prezzi ...cosa paragonabile alla scoperta dell'acqua calda.

Ma l'autorevole professor Luke Clancy ci spiega che il prezzo delle Marlboro è meglio che non salga. Devono salire solo le cosiddette "economiche", e con la sola imposizione del prezzo minimo, non con una maggiore tassazione.

...Che lo Stato soffra per le eccessive entrate fiscali?

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Anti-smoking groups fear price war on cigarettes

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Marlboros to make Bangladesh debut

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BAT rewards distributors

Versatile distributors of British American Tobacco (BAT) Malawi products were on Friday given motorbikes and cash prizes to strengthen their businesses. Continue

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