2011: Italy – Just Like North Africa?

If on the other side of the Mediterranean there are leaders who appoint their sons and grandsons as their successors and enrich their friends and supporters, in Italy things are not much different. Here, on our side of the sea, powerful multinationals succeed in getting elected officials to pass laws made to measure for them; they are “exonerated” from paying taxes and they don’t give a damn about court sentences, whether they are Italian or European.

But in spite of everything, we can be optimistic, because the “African surge of democracy”, useful only to those who want to put their hands on their oil, will sooner or later arrive here in our country too, and it will sweep away these residues of the Middle Ages. Read more »

Taxes on cigarettes – Agriculture joins the fray

Fernanda Cecchini

Fernanda Cecchini, Councilor for Agriculture of the Umbria Region

“The multinationals would be willing to raise their purchase prices on tobacco, but the government must commit itself in fiscal issues tied to the excise on cigarettes, so that in a few weeks we can reach a satisfactory outcome”.

These are the words of the Councilor for Agriculture of the Umbria Region, Fernanda Cecchini, who, on last February 15th, took part in meetings in Rome called by the Ministry of Agricultural Policies (Ministero delle Politiche Agricole - MIPAF) along with the Ministries of the Economy and of Health, to discuss “agreements for the purchase of Italian tobacco”. Read more »

Yesmoke Starts up Again – the State Is Beaten

Men at workThe T.A.R., the Piedmont Regional Court, has sided with Yesmoke in the cigarette maker’s clash with the AAMS - the Autonomous Company of State Monopolies (Azienda Autonoma Monopoli di Stato) and the Ministry of Finance. This morning Yesmoke was able to start up its production again.

The documents Yesmoke presented for the renewal of authorization to manage the fiscal deposit for the manufacture of cigarettes were all correct. The sentence is final; no one can ask Yesmoke for them anymore. Read more »

Watch out! Scam under way!

Cartello lavori in corsoOn last December 17th, the government gave its preliminary approval to a plan for a legislative decree to implement European Community Directive 2010/12/CE regarding the structure and the aliquots of the excises applied to processed tobacco products, and to align current Italian regulations with the sentence of the European Court of Justice that has condemned Italy for applying a minimum price on cigarettes.

Actually, what we are seeing is a coarse attempt to evade this sentence, to the satisfaction of foreign tobacco multinationals and to the detriment of the tax revenues of the State and of national cigarette producers. Read more »

The AAMS vs. Yesmoke: the final debagging?

Caught with pants downLeave the “intruder” alone, accept the disarray of the market that will follow, or try everything even what is unacceptable to get rid of Yesmoke and safeguard the interests of Big Tobacco?

So, the AAMS (Azienda Autonoma Monopoli di Stato – Autonomous State Monopolies Agency) got the Guardia di Finanza, the Italian Finance Police,  to close and seal up Yesmoke’s factory; the documents required to renew the authorization to  manage a warehouse for cigarette production allegedly were not valid.

Although there were orders to fill for foreign customers and new workers were being hired, the machines had to be shut down and the workers had to be laid off to live on redundancy pay - “cassa integrazione”. Read more »

2011: The Year of the "Bang"?

Botti illegali, bombe cartaIn 2011 hundreds and hundreds of millions of euro of profits of the so-called cigarette manufacturers' cartel could be redirected into the coffers of the State. Is it true that the Italian market, the hunting grounds of Philip Morris, B.A.T. and Japan Tobacco, is about to be liberalized, as the European Court has sentenced?

WILL 2011 BE THE YEAR OF THE INEVITABLE “BANG”?  A HAPPY 2011 TO ALL!

Online cigarettes: Yesmoke acquitted

Palazzo di Giustizia a Torino

Palazzo di Giustizia a Torino

On December 21st 2010, the Court of  Turin, bringing to an end a case that had gone on for years, acquitted  Yesmoke, defended by the attorney Andrea Voltolini, and all the defendants, from the accusation of “contraband through Internet”,  because "il fatto non sussiste”- the fact does not exist.

Yesmoke from 2000 to 2004,  when it was a Swiss online tobacco vendor, world leader in the sector, sold legally, but in open conflict with Philip Morris, 300 million packs of Marlboros through Internet, shipped from Switzerland to the United States and to most of the other countries of the world, excepting Italy. Read more »

Cigarettes: the clever ads

Fumer, c'est être l'esclave du tabac – Creative Anti-Smoking Ad CampaignAdvertising is not only the Marlboro cowboy.

Here is the new section on "Anti-smoking advertising", with our collection of images.
Visit the section Creative Anti Smoking Ads Campaigns.

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