Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP)

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Tobacco products should be exempted from the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership, in order to retain policy space for all TTIP partners to address this most destructive cause of preventable disease. This is not anti-trade, but the goals and benefits of trade are not compatible with tobacco. Trade has the potential to improve lives, while tobacco devastates lives, providing no benefit whatsoever to its addicted consumers. Here are the arguments for a full exemption.