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Italiano For the Italian Parents’ Movement - Movimento Italiano Genitori (MOIGE), children’s health is an entirely relative problem.
This association, which arrogates the right to represent Italian parents and enters homes and schools, conducts questionable campaigns on the prevention of smoking among minors, thanks to the money of Philip Morris and of the Italian Tobacconists Federation - Federazione Italiana Tabaccai - FIT.
An association like the MOIGE, “for parents dedicated to the safeguarding and the growth of their most precious fruits”, is ideal for Big Tobacco.
Such campaigns of sponsored pseudo-prevention have been condemned by the international scientific community, not so much because they are accompanied by the brand names and in any case do advertising, but because, besides being banal, rhetorical and ineffective, they subtly promote a “friendly marketing”, that is, an attractive image of the tobacco manufacturer sponsors. Read more »
Circular 16D, of April 28th 2006, of the Customs Agency (Agenzia delle Dogane), though it is not a law, is an important opinion that should be followed. As a circular, it clarifies existing legislation and therefore regulates the VAT deposits instituted both before the publication of the circular as well as those instituted after its issue. 
The tobacco multinationals have taken the place of the old political currents, and financing a galaxy of foundations and associations, they are conditioning the agenda of Italian politics.
The public clarification requested from British America Tobacco in answer to its letter “reserved and confidential”, had arrived, but in the form of a recourse, with the request for the preventive removal of the news article published on October 1st: “BAT, 500 Million of Evaded VAT Discovered by Yesmoke”.