from the newsletter of 16.06.2008 dell'ADUC
The Government appears confused in the field of addiction. On the one hand tries to raise
EU subsidies to tobacco farmers, on the other
solemnly undertakes to combat smoking addiction.
Yesterday, the Minister of Agriculture, Food and Forestry, Luca Zaia,
has asked the EU Commissioner for Agriculture, Mariann Fischer Boell
continuing European funding for the crop until 2013 rather than 2009 as has recently
The European Commission decided. "We talked with the desired clarity
Italy dell'Healt in check
Common Agricultural Policy, "Zaia said on the sidelines of the meeting."
Maintaining the Community Tobacco Fund for more than four years
current limit for 2009 is a priority ' for tobacco
Italian ".
But also yesterday, the Minister of Labour, Health and Welfare, Maurizio Sacconi said
what are your priority 'to the Committee
Sanita' of the Senate:" I relating to the work 'Minister Sirchia, who had
given much emphasis to a policy of prevention, from
policy against smoking. "
short, one of two things. O fighting drug addiction, tobacco-
a substance that kills about 90 thousand people every year in Italy alone, or if it stimulates the production
with the money of European citizens.
