DE: Parliament Votes Against Total Ad Ban

The German Bundesrat or federal Parliament has voted against a proposed total ban on all cigarette advertising, against the demand for such a ban by two Bundesrat committees. The vote follows a similar stance by the Bundesrat adopted in 1989, 1991 and 1993, when it voted against proposals to ban all tobacco advertising throughout the EU, on the basis that such a prohibition would represent a breach of the EU’s principle of subsidiarity.