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01/03/2013
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Judge overturned the TRF-1 injunction suspending the rule Anvisa.
By rule, flavored cigarettes can only be sold until September.
The Judge Jirair Aram Meguerian, the Regional Federal Court of the 1st Region (TRF-1), confirmed the validity of the resolution of the National Sanitary Surveillance Agency (ANVISA), which prohibits the sale of flavored cigarettes in the country. The decision was taken on Tuesday (26) and released on Wednesday (27).
The decision overturned an injunction from the Federal Court of the Federal District, obtained by syndicate Interstate Tobacco Industry (Sinditabaco), which suspended the rule of ANVISA. In evaluating the judge, aromatic additives such as menthol and cloves, amplify the damage to health. The Sinditabaco may resort to self TRF-1 and then the courts.
A ban on the sale of cigarettes with aromatic additives was established in Resolution 14/2012, issued by ANVISA in March last year.
her rule, industries were 18 months after publication, to withdraw flavored cigarettes. That deadline expires next September. They still have six more months to suffer no punishment. For other tobacco products such as pipes to smoke, the term is 24 months. The resolution stated that the products could only be manufactured in the country for export.
In the 25-page decision, the judge presented data on the consumption of cigarettes and found that about 90% of smokers become addicted to nicotine between 5 and 19 years. "There is risk of mortality in normal cigarette consumption, and additives whose use is prohibited by the resolution are attractive to start up or increase their consumption," the judge argued.
Impact
According to ANVISA, the number of brands of flavored cigarettes available in the market nearly doubled between 2007 and 2010, from 21 to 40. About 600 additives are used in the manufacture of cigarettes - 10 mass% of a cigarette is actually comprised of additives.
The producers claim that 2.5 million jobs are linked to cigarette production chain, especially in the South About 15% of the tobacco produced in Brazil is geared to the domestic market. The main buyers are the European Union countries and the Far East.
Source: G1 - News
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