{"id":231462,"date":"2026-08-17T06:49:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-17T06:49:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/2026\/08\/17\/can-the-eu-stop-smoking-by-taxing-cigarettes-take-our-poll\/"},"modified":"2026-08-17T06:49:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-17T06:49:10","slug":"can-the-eu-stop-smoking-by-taxing-cigarettes-take-our-poll","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/2026\/08\/17\/can-the-eu-stop-smoking-by-taxing-cigarettes-take-our-poll\/","title":{"rendered":"Can the EU stop smoking by taxing cigarettes? Take our poll"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The EU is proposing sharp tax increases on cigarettes and, for the first time, EU-wide minimum excise duties on vapes, heated tobacco products and nicotine pouches. This follows a review that found current tobacco laws are no longer keeping pace with the rapidly evolving nicotine market.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.euronews.com\/my-europe\/2026\/08\/17\/can-the-eu-stop-smoking-by-taxing-cigarettes-take-our-poll\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The EU is proposing sharp tax increases on cigarettes and, for the first time, EU-wide minimum excise duties on vapes, heated tobacco products and nicotine pouches. This follows a review that found current tobacco laws are no longer keeping pace with the rapidly evolving nicotine market. Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":231463,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-231462","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-europe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231462","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=231462"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231462\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/231463"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=231462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=231462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=231462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}