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CECILIA KINDSTRAND ISAKSSON, director of public affairs, Swedish Match
"Let's talk about SNUS"

A talk with CECILIA KIRDSTRAND ISAKSSON, director, public affairs, Swedish Match on that company’s iconic and controversial snus products, which some call the original reduced risk tobacco product.

What is the product? And if it is reduced risk, why is it illegal in the EU and other markets? What is being done to clarify snus status as a reduced risk product globally?

HUGO AZINHEIRA, global innovation and marketing director at ESSENTRA
"Upcoming EU Plastic Packaging Requirements and the Tobacco Business"

A talk with HUGO AZINHEIRA, global innovation and marketing director at ESSENTRA, the leading global suppliers of specialty filters and scientific services for the tobacco industry.

Filling you in on the EU Plastic Packaging Requirements and how this effects cigarette manufacturing and other tobacco products industries.What kind of plastic replacement products can be used for tobacco product? What are the plastic contents in a tobacco product?

A talk with SIMON CLARK, director of the UK smoker’s lobby group FOREST (Freedom Organization for the Right to Enjoy Smoking Tobacco) founded in 1979.
We’ve seen indoor smoking bans adopted globally, then gory warnings reared their ugly heads and were adopted globally, then the plain packaging idea was planted in Australia and grew like fungus all over, and then taxes rising around the world trying to price cigarettes out of reach of many . . . one wonders what else besides just banning cigarettes can be done by the anti-tobacconists? What is the state-of-the-art of the anti-tobacco movement? What...