{"content":"<div class=\"ffb-id-6aprbmnc fg-paragraph ff-richtext text-left    fg-text-dark\"><div class=\"OutlineElement Ltr SCXW32477020 BCX0\" style=\"margin: 0px;padding: 0px;overflow: visible;cursor: text;clear: both;position: relative;direction: ltr;font-family: 'Segoe UI', 'Segoe UI Web', Arial, Verdana, sans-serif;font-size: 12px\">\r\n<p class=\"Paragraph SCXW32477020 BCX0\" style=\"margin: 0px;padding: 0px;vertical-align: baseline;background-color: transparent;color: windowtext;text-align: justify\"><span class=\"TextRun SCXW32477020 BCX0\" lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"margin: 0px;padding: 0px;font-size: 10pt;line-height: 19.425px;font-family: 'Segoe UI', 'Segoe UI_EmbeddedFont', 'Segoe UI_MSFontService', sans-serif\" xml:lang=\"EN-GB\" data-contrast=\"auto\">Two countries (Netherlands and Denmark) improved their score with 9 or more points. Overall, countries which failed to undertake new initiatives lost points and fell in the ranking. The countries that are leading in tobacco control in Europe are those that have comprehensive tobacco control policies.&nbsp;<\/span><span class=\"EOP SCXW32477020 BCX0\" style=\"margin: 0px;padding: 0px;font-size: 10pt;line-height: 19.425px;font-family: 'Segoe UI', 'Segoe UI_EmbeddedFont', 'Segoe UI_MSFontService', sans-serif\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<div class=\"OutlineElement Ltr SCXW32477020 BCX0\" style=\"margin: 0px;padding: 0px;overflow: visible;cursor: text;clear: both;position: relative;direction: ltr;font-family: 'Segoe UI', 'Segoe UI Web', Arial, Verdana, sans-serif;font-size: 12px\">\r\n<p class=\"Paragraph SCXW32477020 BCX0\" style=\"margin: 0px;padding: 0px;vertical-align: baseline;background-color: transparent;color: windowtext;text-align: justify\"><span class=\"TextRun SCXW32477020 BCX0\" lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"margin: 0px;padding: 0px;font-size: 10pt;line-height: 19.425px;font-family: 'Segoe UI', 'Segoe UI_EmbeddedFont', 'Segoe UI_MSFontService', sans-serif\" xml:lang=\"EN-GB\" data-contrast=\"auto\"><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW32477020 BCX0\" style=\"margin: 0px;padding: 0px\">Nine countries (Ireland, UK, France, Netherlands, Hungary, Norway, Finland, <\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW32477020 BCX0\" style=\"margin: 0px;padding: 0px\">Iceland<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW32477020 BCX0\" style=\"margin: 0px;padding: 0px\"> and Romania) have 60 points or more, eleven countries have scores in the 50s (Belgium, Spain, Turkey, Denmark, Israel, Greece, Malta, Slovenia, Italy, Russian Federation, Lithuania), and the remaining 17 countries failed to reach 50% of the total score possible. Five countries (Bosnia &amp; Herzegovina, Switzerland, Serbia, <\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW32477020 BCX0\" style=\"margin: 0px;padding: 0px\">Germany<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW32477020 BCX0\" style=\"margin: 0px;padding: 0px\"> and Bulgaria) have very low scores, with fewer than 45 points.&nbsp;<\/span><\/span><span class=\"EOP SCXW32477020 BCX0\" style=\"margin: 0px;padding: 0px;font-size: 10pt;line-height: 19.425px;font-family: 'Segoe UI', 'Segoe UI_EmbeddedFont', 'Segoe UI_MSFontService', sans-serif\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<div class=\"OutlineElement Ltr SCXW32477020 BCX0\" style=\"margin: 0px;padding: 0px;overflow: visible;cursor: text;clear: both;position: relative;direction: ltr;font-family: 'Segoe UI', 'Segoe UI Web', Arial, Verdana, sans-serif;font-size: 12px\">\r\n<p class=\"Paragraph SCXW32477020 BCX0\" style=\"margin: 0px;padding: 0px;vertical-align: baseline;background-color: transparent;color: windowtext;text-align: justify\"><span class=\"TextRun SCXW32477020 BCX0\" lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"margin: 0px;padding: 0px;font-size: 10pt;line-height: 19.425px;font-family: 'Segoe UI', 'Segoe UI_EmbeddedFont', 'Segoe UI_MSFontService', sans-serif\" xml:lang=\"EN-GB\" data-contrast=\"auto\"><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW32477020 BCX0\" style=\"margin: 0px;padding: 0px\">The EU Tobacco Products Directive obliged EU countries to introduce pictorial health warnings. Importantly, twelve countries in this edition (UK, France, Ireland, Hungary, Norway, Slovenia, Turkey, Israel, Belgium, Netherlands, <\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW32477020 BCX0\" style=\"margin: 0px;padding: 0px\">Denmark<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW32477020 BCX0\" style=\"margin: 0px;padding: 0px\"> and Finland) adopted the plain packaging legislation, although Finland had not yet implemented their legislation on 1 January 2022 (to be implemented on 1 May 2023).<\/span><\/span><\/p>\r\n<\/div><\/div>","hash":"a6878a0b542db26317fe336144b79108","css":".ffb-id-6aprbmnc{ \nfont-family: 'Roboto', Arial, sans-serif !important;\n}\n.ffb-id-6aprbmnc:before,\n.ffb-id-6aprbmnc:after,\n.ffb-id-6aprbmnc:hover,\n.ffb-id-6aprbmnc:focus,\n.ffb-id-6aprbmnc *,\n.ffb-id-6aprbmnc *:before,\n.ffb-id-6aprbmnc *:after,\n.ffb-id-6aprbmnc *:hover,\n.ffb-id-6aprbmnc *:focus{ \nfont-family: 'Roboto', Arial, sans-serif !important;\n}\n@media (min-width:992px) { \n.ffb-id-6aprbmnc{ \nfont-size: 15px !important;\n}\n}@media (min-width:992px) { \n.ffb-id-6aprbmnc ,\n.ffb-id-6aprbmnc:before,\n.ffb-id-6aprbmnc:after,\n.ffb-id-6aprbmnc:hover,\n.ffb-id-6aprbmnc:focus,\n.ffb-id-6aprbmnc *,\n.ffb-id-6aprbmnc *:before,\n.ffb-id-6aprbmnc *:after,\n.ffb-id-6aprbmnc *:hover,\n.ffb-id-6aprbmnc *:focus{ \nfont-size: 15px !important;\n}\n}@media (min-width:1200px) { \n.ffb-id-6aprbmnc{ \nfont-size: 15px !important;\n}\n}@media (min-width:1200px) { \n.ffb-id-6aprbmnc ,\n.ffb-id-6aprbmnc:before,\n.ffb-id-6aprbmnc:after,\n.ffb-id-6aprbmnc:hover,\n.ffb-id-6aprbmnc:focus,\n.ffb-id-6aprbmnc *,\n.ffb-id-6aprbmnc *:before,\n.ffb-id-6aprbmnc *:after,\n.ffb-id-6aprbmnc *:hover,\n.ffb-id-6aprbmnc *:focus{ \nfont-size: 15px !important;\n}\n}","js":""}