In this week’s episode: 🇹🇷 The EU is questioning Turkey’s reliability on food trade 🔎 Maria Chaplia takes us through the CCC’s research in 2022 💨 Flavour confusion: what policy-makers don’t understand about harm reduction and the importance of flavours (w/ Patrick Griffin) Check out Vaporound Magazine: https://www.vapouround.co.uk/ Follow Patrick Griffin on Twitter @chattopatrick. Patrick […]
Shorter episode of ConsEUmer this week, with these topics: 💼 Danish and Swedish labour unions oppose minimum wage directive 🇪🇺 Michael Landl talks about his pro-vaping activism in Brussels You can follow Michael Landl on Twitter @LandlMichael. November 25, 2021 Follow ConsEUmer wherever you get your podcasts: Apple: https://apple.co/2HR4TLTSpotify: https://spoti.fi/3l3GZdxGoogle podcasts: https://bit.ly/3fyyzto
The World Health Organization’s Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC COP) is coming up next week, after having been cancelled last year. The meeting will assess the progress of WHO states in their reduction of smoking rates and continue its recommendations to curb the use of tobacco products. Curiously, in the conversations over the last […]
It’s August, so let the sun shine and ConsEUmer play in your ears! ☀️In this week’s episode: 📦Amazon gets fined by Luxembourg over data use 💨 The World Health Organization gets vaping wrong (w/ Michael Landl) 🇨🇭Switzerland backs out of trade negotiations with the EU (w/ Frédéric Jollien) You can follow Frédéric Jollien on Twitter […]
Interview-heavy episode this week, as I’m feeling slightly under the weather: 🔌 Buying an electric easy isn’t always easy (w/ Liz Hicks) 💨 The World Vapers’ Alliance launches new campaign (w/ Michael Landl) 🇱🇹 Fred Roeder interviews a Lithuanian MP on vaping (w/ Morgana Daniele) 🇧🇾 Do the sanction on the regime in Belarus work? […]
ConsEUmer is back with new episodes! This week: 📝 The EU wants to reform the Emissions Trading System (ETS) 🦠 Maria Chaplia presents the Pandemic Preparedness Index 2021 💨 Michael Landl explains how World Vape Day went this year 🚜 More on the Farm to Fork strategy (w/ Benjamin Franke) You can follow the MEP […]
Die EU-weite Tabakmindeststeuer soll erhöht werden, auch das ‚Dampfen‘ betreffend. Geht gegen Einkaufstourismus, der durch noch höhere Steuern aber höchstens auf den Schwarzmarkt abgedrängt würde. Im Juni billigte der Europäische Rat einen neuen Konsens über Verbrauchssteuern auf Tabakwaren. Die Mitgliedstaaten schlagen Änderungen vor, die den Tabakpreis erhöhen und auch Nicht-Tabakprodukte wie E-Zigaretten betreffen würden. Seit 2011 gibt […]
In its conclusions in June, the European Council approved a new consensus on excise duties on tobacco. The member states suggest rule changes that would increase the price of tobacco, and equally affect non-tobacco products such as e-cigarettes. Since 2011, the European Union has had a common minimum excise duty on tobacco products, which notably increased the […]
Click below to watch the day-long coverage by the World Vapers Alliance of World Vape Day 2020, in which I took part as well. My panel starts on the time stamp 2:26:32.
I was interviewed by Scully for Season 6 the Free Market Series on PBS. Click down below to watch the full video.
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