Belgian health minister calls for more EU action against tobacco
“I would like to say to the tobacco industry, guys, you have no future,” Belgian Health Minister Frank Vandenbroucke told delegates at the high-level conference on the future of the Health Union in Brusssels (26-27 March). The need to reduce the consumption of alcohol and tobacco was one of the main topics discussed during the events as it was also one of the goals of Europe’s Beating Cancer Plan presented by the European Commission in 2021. One of the four pillars of this plan was prevention, aiming to ensure that fewer than five per cent of the population consumes tobacco by 2040. “We must e...