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Finnish parliamentary committee takes issue with tobacco bill 

The Finnish Parliament's constitutional law committee said in a report on the centre-right government's tobacco bill that the possession of tobacco with foreign-language warning labels could not be criminalised. . . .

While the government underlined that its aim had been to protect the public's health, the committee said the actual objective had been to curb the import of tobacco, especially from Estonia.

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