NEWSAGENTS ALL FIRED UP.

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Several thousand European newsagents marched in Brussels, on 22 January, with a whistle or a cigarette between their lips in protest against the EU's draft Tobacco Products Directive (revision of Directive 2001/37/EC). The text, which has yet to be approved by the European Parliament and the Council, would be the death sentence of slim and menthol cigarettes and includes stricter regulation for electronic cigarettes and the shape of cigarette packs. "Such measures are a threat to the economic subsistence of retailers. In...

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