Plain packaging of tobacco products in the European Union: an EU success story?

Affiliations

¹ Faculty of Medicine, University of Crete, Clinic of Social and Family Medicine, Heraklion, Greece.
² Institute of Public Health, The American College of Greece, Athens, Greece.
³ School of Public Health, Imperial College London, London, UK.
⁴ EU Affairs Dept, ERS, Brussels, Belgium.
⁵ EU Affairs Dept, ERS, Brussels, Belgium Marine.Faure@ersnet.org.
⁶ Smoking Cessation Service of Region of Madrid, Madrid, Spain.
⁷ Evgenidio Hospital, Smoking Cessation Centre, Athens, Greece.
⁸ Medical School, National Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece.
⁹ Evangelismos Hospital, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Medical School, 1st ICU Dept, Athens, Greece.
¹⁰ European Network for Smoking and Tobacco Prevention, Brussels, Belgium.

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Constantine Vardavas et al. Eur Respir J. 2017.

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. 2017 Nov 22;50(5):1701232.

doi: 10.1183/13993003.01232-2017. Print 2017 Nov.

¹ Faculty of Medicine, University of Crete, Clinic of Social and Family Medicine, Heraklion, Greece.
² Institute of Public Health, The American College of Greece, Athens, Greece.
³ School of Public Health, Imperial College London, London, UK.
⁴ EU Affairs Dept, ERS, Brussels, Belgium.
⁵ EU Affairs Dept, ERS, Brussels, Belgium Marine.Faure@ersnet.org.
⁶ Smoking Cessation Service of Region of Madrid, Madrid, Spain.
⁷ Evgenidio Hospital, Smoking Cessation Centre, Athens, Greece.
⁸ Medical School, National Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece.
⁹ Evangelismos Hospital, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Medical School, 1st ICU Dept, Athens, Greece.
¹⁰ European Network for Smoking and Tobacco Prevention, Brussels, Belgium.

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Conflict of interest statement

Conflict of interest: B. Ward and M. Faure are employees of the European Respiratory Society.