Alliance for tobacco advertising ban demands implementation

Two years to the day after Swiss voters and cantons approved an initiative to ban tobacco advertising, the authors of the petition are concerned about its implementation. Parliament is about to violate the constitution, they say. The committee hopes that the councillors will give in. In the vote in February 2022, voters and cantons decided that tobacco advertising, advertising for e-cigarettes and other nicotine products must not reach children and young people. However, the Senate and the responsible House of Representatives committee do not want to implement the initiative text word for word and want to allow exceptions, for example for the sponsorship of music festivals. + Swiss back further restrictions on tobacco advertising Before the bill is debated again in parliament in the spring session, the organisation behind the “Children and young people without tobacco advertising” initiative is putting pressure on it. “The current form of legislation does not correspond to what the ...