When Big Tobacco "Goes on Strike", the State Capitulates

Here in our country, there have never been genocides, no one has ever thought of building an atomic bomb, and yet the country of “live and let live”, has been …occupied!

Carro armato con i loghi delle multinazionaliA cartel of foreign companies, some already convicted in Italy for having set up a “cartel”,  has taken over the entire tobacco market - brands, factories and distribution. It can decide the rules of a sector worth 14 billion euro in tax revenues and it can cut off the supply flow at any moment.

Today our leaders are living in a relationship of harmonious friendship with those who are taking the Italians’ money away from them; here is an authentic example of what could happen to us tomorrow.
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The Codacons – Safeguarding the Health of Big Tobacco

According to the European Union “the Minimum Price of cigarettes protects the cigarette manufacturers’ profits at the cost of the State’s revenue whereas taxation on all cigarettes would have the same effect  on the final price” For this reason, the E.U. has started up legal violation proceedings against Italy.

Carlo Rienzi

Carlo Rienzi

The CODACONS - Coordinamento delle Associazioni per la Difesa dell'Ambiente e dei Consumatori (Coordination of the Associations for the Defence of the  Environment and of Consumers), also seems to want to safeguard the profits of Philip Morris.

In fact, the CODACONS has lined up on the side of Big Tobacco, opposing the European Union and Yesmoke S.p.A. who are appealing against the minimum cigarette price.

“… in the perspective of an ever greater safeguarding of consumers in general and of  juvenile consumers in particular” said the president, Avv. Prof. Carlo Rienzi. Read more »

In Italy, do they smoke Italian fags? Yes, but only "imported" ones

How come cigarettes are produced and new factories are opened in Europe, but not in Italy?

Mappa dell'importazione di sigarette in ItaliaUntil a few years ago, 95% of the cigarettes sold on the Italian market were manufactured in Italy. The Ente Tabacchi Italiano that used to own all the Italian brands even manufactured Marlboros for Philip Morris here, before it was sold to British American Tobacco in 2004.

Today 99% of the cigarettes sold in Italy (including Logista Spa, that handles all the distribution) is the property of a cartel of foreign companies, which have now moved almost all their production into other countries; it is a sector worth 14 billion a year in tax revenues. Read more »

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