The proposal to increase the working day smokers were excluded from the anti-Smoking concept developed by the Ministry of health of Russia in the years 2017-2022. Also disappeared from the document data of when the state will raise the excise duty from tobacco products. This was announced by the head of monitoring and financial management of the Federal Antimonopoly service (FAS) Vladimir Michelosen at the meeting of the expert Council of the Agency for the development of competition on the market of tobacco products. His words leads to “the Russian newspaper”.
Also from the new edition removed a proposal to prohibit the sale of tobacco to anyone born after 2015, said Michelove. It was assumed that the measure would be perpetual and will be operational in 2033.
The concept of other proposals were made: civil servants were forbidden to participate in sponsored by the tobacco companies, events, trademarks, cigarette packs in films will depersonalize, the state will cease to support movies with smokers, and so on.
Previously, the time consumers spend on tobacco smoke suggested to add to the basic working time. This initiative provoked criticism from labor, which has offered the Ministry of health is initiatives on regulation of working time to engage in the reform of health insurance.