{"id":875,"date":"2013-07-12T17:17:07","date_gmt":"2013-07-12T16:17:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/radiowood.com\/?p=875"},"modified":"2013-07-12T17:17:07","modified_gmt":"2013-07-12T16:17:07","slug":"britain-misses-the-real-tobacco-legislation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiowood.com\/?p=875","title":{"rendered":"Britain Misses the Real Tobacco Legislation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t get it. While the \u00a0EU Parliament has bern enacting the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.epha.org\/a\/5788\">Tobacco Products Directive<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>10 July, Brussels<\/i>\u00a0\u2013 Today,\u00a0<strong>Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) have taken a significant step forward in the race against the massive harm that smoking causes to millions in Europe<\/strong>. In a vote on the revised EU Tobacco Product Directive (TPD), the European Parliament\u2019s Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety (ENVI) supported<strong>stronger measures to prevent young Europeans from taking up smoking and encourage millions of smokers to quit.<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>(Something which has had important repercussions for Sweden.)<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;the British Government and Parliament seem to be on a totally different planet as they discuss <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/health-23281804\" target=\"_blank\">completely separate rule<\/a>s:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The government has denied claims it has caved in to the tobacco industry after plans to introduce plain cigarette packaging in England were put on hold.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Where the EU is concerned, Britain seems to live in an alternative reality, as if the Directive that applies to the other 27 does not exist for the UK.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t get it. While the \u00a0EU Parliament has bern enacting the Tobacco Products Directive: 10 July, Brussels\u00a0\u2013 Today,\u00a0Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) have taken a significant step forward in the race against the massive harm that smoking causes&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/radiowood.com\/?p=875\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[212],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3AzSx-e7","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiowood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/875"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiowood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiowood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiowood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiowood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=875"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiowood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/875\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":876,"href":"https:\/\/radiowood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/875\/revisions\/876"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiowood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiowood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiowood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}