Tobacco law|According to the center’s MPs, all added flavors should be banned from nicotine pouches.
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The center’s MPs demand the rejection of the reform of the tobacco law.
The representatives accuse the bill of favoring a company from St. Petersburg.
They appeal to the president and demand an opinion from the Supreme Court.
According to Helsingin Sanomat, Rkp added Strengbergs Habit Factory flavors to the bill.
Parliamentary centrist MPs of the social and health committee Markku Siponen, Hanna-Leena Mattila and Pekka Aittakumpu demand that the controversial reform of the tobacco law is not taken all the way to the president, but the law already approved by the parliament is left unconfirmed.
The representatives say in their press release that they are dismayed by the information in the media, based on which a popular company from St. Petersburg is shown in the permitted flavor selection of nicotine pouches.
According to the representatives, favoring one company in the law would be “exceptionally dubious” and “shaming”.
“Even though the parliament has already had time to approve the amendment to the law, there are so many extraordinary and big questions hanging over this proposal that the Government should refrain from taking the law to the President of the Republic for confirmation,” the representatives write.
They appeal to the president by stating that the president can obtain an opinion on the law from the Supreme Court or the Supreme Administrative Court.
The center the trio demands the Minister of Social Security From Sanni Grahn-Laason (kok) answer to whether the board has consciously acted under the “hand control” of one company.
Helsingin Sanomat according to the information Flavors produced by Strengbergs Habit Factory from St. Petersburg were added to the bill in the spring of 2024 specifically at the initiative of Rkp. Rkp was headed by a person from Pietarsaari at that time Anna-Maja Henriksson.
In addition to mint and menthol, which were already there, ginger, rosemary, tea and wood were added to the list of permitted flavors, all of which can be found in the “adult” flavor selection of the St. Petersburg-based company. The law specifies that the taste of wood means “the taste of the actual wood material”, and not, for example, the taste of pulp or sap.
“From the beginning, the government’s desire to add flavors to nicotine pouches has been surprising, because the government itself says in its presentation that the flavors of menthol and mint are also estimated to be of interest to children and young people,” the representatives of the center write.
They remind that the center proposed banning all flavors in smokeless nicotine products.
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