Traduction de «tobacco production » (Anglais → Français) :

(14) Tobacco growing is of historical importance on the islands. Economically speaking, tobacco preparation continues to be one of the chief industrial activities in the region. In social terms, tobacco cultivation is very labour intensive and carried out by small farms. Since the crop is not sufficiently profitable it is in danger of dying out. Tobacco is currently cultivated only on a small area on the island of La Palma, where it is used for the artisanal manufacture of cigars. Spain should therefore be authorised to continue to grant aid in addition to the Community aid so that this traditional crop can be maintained with a view to supporting the artisan ...[+++]al activity associated with it. In addition, to maintain the manufacture of tobacco products, imports into the Canary Islands of raw and semi-manufactured tobacco should continue to be exempt from customs duty, up to an annual limit of 20000 tonnes of stripped raw tobacco equivalent.

Tobacco products for oral use and smokeless tobacco products: there are separate provisions for these two categories of products, i.e. the following warning: This tobacco product can damage your health and is addictive.

As a society, we have made significant strides in controlling many of the peripheral issues related to tobacco use, including limiting youth access to tobacco products; restricting the promotion of tobacco products; increasing health information on tobacco packages; and restricting the tobacco industry's promotional practices, including sponsorship promotion.

These measures include an increase in the excise tax for tobacco products, an extension of the surtax on tobacco manufacturers, change in the excise tax on exported tobacco products and reductions in the amounts of tobacco products that may be brought into Canada on a duty-free and tax-free basis.

On the contrary, it allows product advertising; it allows the display of tobacco products at retail outlets; it allows tobacco companies to communicate information about their products to adult consumers; it allows the tobacco companies, with some restrictions, to continue to associate the brand names of tobacco products with sponsored events; and it allows the broadcasting of those events.

33.1 (1) The Tobacco Manufacturers Community Responsibility Fund is established to assist the Canadian tobacco manufacturing industry to demonstrate its commitment to the health and welfare of Canadians, and of young persons in particular (2) Within thirty days after this Act is assented to and thereafter as needed from time to time, the Minister shall appoint a committee, composed of seven medical practitioners of whom four shall have a demonstrated expertise in child psychology, to choose an administrator of the Fund, referred to in this section as the " Administrator" , and, within ninety days after its appointment, the committee shal ...[+++]l select a non-profit body corporate, either currently in existence or whose creation for the purpose is proposed to the committee, and appoint it to administer the Fund (3) The Fund is established on behalf of the Canadian tobacco manufacturing industry (a) to protect the health of young persons by engaging in and funding activities intended to discourage them from using tobacco products and to protect them from inducements to use tobacco products and the consequent dependence on them, and