EU To Spend Some Tobacco Aid On Health Campaigns

The European Union could divert some of the subsidies from tobacco farming to finance health campaigns which highlight the harmful effects of tobacco.EU tobacco subsidies are due to be scrapped in 2010, the end of a four-year phase out agreed by farm ministers in 2004. Until then the European Commission wants to channel up to 5 percent of that aid into health campaigns.

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Filed under: Smoking / Quit Smoking on February 11th, 2008