http://www.tobacco.org/newsfeed/country/hungary.rss Latest top tobacco news headlines en-us http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/kent/8274437.stm http://tobacco.org/news/290287.html A Hungarian lorry driver has been arrested after more than four million cigarettes were found at Dover. Customs officers who stopped a Hungarian-registered lorry at the Kent port on Thursday found an estimated £708,000 worth of cigarettes. BBC Online UK Hungary Fri, 25 Sep 2009 04:00:00 GMT http://www.budapesttimes.hu/content/view/11774/28/ http://tobacco.org/news/282829.html Budapest Court last Wednesday upheld an earlier decision of the National Consumer Protection Office (NFH) regarding a HUF 300 million (EUR 1 million) fine on tobacco manufacturer BAT Hungary. The charge was Hungary's biggest consumer protection penalty to date. The proceedings were initiated by two private individuals after the cigarette maker gave away promotional products on the premises of numerous Tesco and Spar retail stores in the winter of 2007. Budapest Times Hungary Mon, 27 Apr 2009 04:00:00 GMT http://www.realdeal.hu/20090302/stricter-tobacco-advertising-regulations-in-force-from-sunday http://tobacco.org/news/279652.html Tobacco advertising regulations in Hungary became stricter as of March 1, meeting EU demands. Advertisements can now only be displayed at sales points, and brand names can only be promoted with health warnings. Meeting the new requirements is essentially the retailers' responsibility, but, as producers make the promotion materials, they can also check sales points, British American Tobacco marketing director Dániel Buzási said. realdeal.hu Hungary Mon, 02 Mar 2009 05:00:00 GMT http://www.newswise.com/articles/view/546169/?sc=rsln http://tobacco.org/news/274118.html Roswell Park Cancer Institute (RPCI) faculty members recently met with the Hungarian Health Minister and other government officials to discuss strategies to reduce smoking in Hungary. Laszlo Mechtler, MD, Department of Neurology at RPCI and President of the Hungarian Medical Association of America, led the delegation. “With one in two tobacco users dying prematurely from tobacco use, we need to be more aggressive in our actions to address the tobacco problem in Hungary,” he said. Tamas Szekely, MD, Hungarian Minister of Health, added, “Hungary has high smoking rates and consequently high rates of lung cancer and heart disease that result from tobacco use.” Hungary was among the first countries in the world to ratify the World Health Organization’s Framework Convention on Tobacco Control . . . In fact, Hungary’s smokers include 30% of all its physicians – 12% of all pulmonologists – and even the nation’s Minister of Health, Dr. Szekely. “How can the people of Hungary quit smoking when its intellectuals and healthcare leaders smoke?” asks Mechtler. To kick-start Hungary’s tobacco reduction program, RPCI faculty organized a two-day symposium, “The Tobacco Epidemic in Hungary,” which was held in August in Budapest. The symposium featured 71 lectures on topics ranging from tobacco’s deleterious health effects to new treatments for tobacco addiction and ways to implement tobacco-control policies. Newswise askrpci@roswellpark.org (Source: Roswell Park Cancer Institute) Hungary Thu, 06 Nov 2008 05:00:00 GMT http://www.budapesttimes.hu/content/view/9799/219/ http://tobacco.org/news/274075.html On average there are more smokers in Hungary than in other EU states, a study of 250,000 European Union citizens found which included 6,000 Hungarians. Spokesman of the HELP EU – For a Life Without Tobacco campaign, János Nagy, emphasised that while the EU average for smokers is somewhere around 27%, more than one-third of Hungarians smoke. Pulmonologist János Mucsi said at last Wednesday’s press conference that he believed that more than 25% of graduates leave high school as smokers. Budapest Times Hungary Mon, 03 Nov 2008 05:00:00 GMT http://www.budapestsun.com/cikk.php?id=28913 http://tobacco.org/news/273733.html Smoking will not be banned in bars and restaurants from the beginning of next year contrary to earlier plans, reported Hungarian website Hír­szerzô last Sunday (Oct 26). The five-party parliamentary negotiations on banning smoking tobacco in closed public places were suspended as a result of favoring the debate on the 2009 budget and new tax regulations. Instead, the notices on the cigarette packets will be substituted to show images of cancerous lungs, mouths and leg gangrenes to promote prevention and health-awareness among smokers. Budapest Sun Hungary Wed, 29 Oct 2008 04:00:00 GMT http://www.tobaccojournal.com/Hungary_objects_to_cigarette_excise_duty_hike.49298.0.html http://tobacco.org/news/273673.html Hungary's government has objected to a European Union directive which will raise the excise duty on tobacco by 2014, the finance ministry said on Monday. Currently, excise duties levied on cigarettes must account for at least 57 per cent of price, and must be at least EUR 64 per 1,000 cigarettes, for products falling under the "most popular price category" in Hungary. This current percentage would be increased to 63 per cent of the weighted average price and the rate of EUR 64 will rise to EUR 90 for all cigarettes by 2014, under the new proposal of the European Commission. Tobacco Journal International Europe Hungary Tue, 28 Oct 2008 04:00:00 GMT http://english.mti.hu/default.asp?menu=1&theme=2&cat=25&newsid=256398 http://tobacco.org/news/272731.html Hungary does not plan to replace written warnings on cigarette packs with shocking medical images, a health official said on Tuesday. Instead of replacing words by images, which has been done in many countries worldwide including Canada and Britain, efforts are currently focused on introducing a complete smoking ban indoors, said Edina Gabor, director of the national health development institute. Gabor said it is difficult to measure the effectiveness of placing images on cigarette boxes because countries generally introduce several sanctions at the same time. MTI Daily Bulletin multimedia@mti.hu Hungary Tue, 21 Oct 2008 04:00:00 GMT http://www.caboodle.hu/nc/news/news_archive/single_page/article/11/ukranian_rai/?cHash=f858068643 http://tobacco.org/news/270770.html Hungary's customs officials arrested two engineers of a cargo train from Ukraine, suspected of having smuggled cigarettes into Hungary, seizing both the smuggled goods and the train's engine at Zahony border station, a local customs spokesman told MTI on Wednesday. The train entered the country late on Tuesday. Officers spotted that several large packages had been thrown out of it before it reached the railway station, Jozsef Kupecz said. The packages were found to contain some 15,000 packets of Ukrainian cigarettes, worth an estimated 7 million forints (22,400 euros). Caboodle.hu Ukraine Hungary Thu, 04 Sep 2008 04:00:00 GMT http://www.tradingmarkets.com/.site/news/Stock%20News/1172952/ http://tobacco.org/news/260890.html British American Tobacco Hungary (BAT) Kft is appealing the consumer protection agency NFH's second-degree ruling of February 2008 fining the tobacco producer and its partners participating in the winter campaign of Pall Mall cigarettes Ft 520 million. Small gifts were given to customers sharing personal details with hostesses. Trading Markets info@tradingmarkets.com Hungary Thu, 06 Mar 2008 05:00:00 GMT http://www.portfolio.hu/en/cikkek.tdp?cCheck=1&k=5&i=13960 http://tobacco.org/news/258520.html Hungary's tobacco market has reached a turning point. By the end of the year it must comply with European Union regulations regarding excise tax. This necessitates a hike of the excise tax on tobacco twice this year. The transition period to comply with the EU cigarette tax regime expires at the end of the year in Poland and Slovakia as well. The excise tax on tobacco is to be raised twice this year, first in April and then in September. The hike will naturally be reflected in the retail price of cigarette, as well, business daily Világgazdaság said on Tuesday. Portfolio online financial journal Hungary Tue, 22 Jan 2008 05:00:00 GMT http://www.bbj.hu/main/news_35050_health%20minister%20vows%20to%20ban%20smoking.html http://tobacco.org/news/258109.html Hungary, which tops the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development's list for deaths from lung cancer, plans to join the group of countries which have banned smoking in closed public places. ... Horváth said, “We plan to join the list of European countries where you can't smoke in closed public places under any circumstances. We want to promote self-care and individual responsibility.” The minister announced the plan at a press conference outlining the year's top priorities for her junior governing party, SzDSz. (ash.org) Budapest Business Journal Hungary Mon, 14 Jan 2008 05:00:00 GMT http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=newsarchive&sid=aiyjPJQc6M6s http://tobacco.org/news/257838.html Hungary, which tops the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development's list for deaths from lung cancer, plans to join the group of countries that forbid smoking in closed public places. The Health Ministry is drafting a smoking ban similar to clampdowns in Ireland and France, Health Minister Agnes Horvath said at a press conference in Budapest today. Hungary has 60.5 deaths from lung cancer per 100,000 citizens, compared with an OECD average of 37.4, according to an index compiled by Bloomberg using OECD data. More than 30 percent of the population uses tobacco, higher than any OECD country except for Greece, Turkey and the Netherlands, the data shows. ``We plan to join the list of European countries where you can't smoke in closed public places under any circumstances,'' Horvath said. ``We want to promote self-care and individual responsibility.'' Bloomberg News akuli@bloomberg.net (Alex Kuli) Hungary Wed, 09 Jan 2008 05:00:00 GMT http://www.caboodle.hu/nc/news/news_archive/single_page/article/11/new_hungaria-3/ http://tobacco.org/news/253831.html New Hungarian Red Cross Director Ágnes Czimbalmos has a tough prescription for Hungary: quit smoking and eat more veggies. "To improve public health in Hungary, yes, I would suggest people give up smoking and eat more vegetables, of course," says Ágnes Czimbalmos, who recently took over Hungary's chapter of the leading global non-profit. "But," she counters realistically, "It is not that easy." Czimbalmos jokingly points out that an anti-smoking campaign in Hungary could be more successful than unbraiding corruption from the country's graft-ridden health care system. Caboodle.hu Hungary Tue, 16 Oct 2007 04:00:00 GMT http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/13/arts/design/13grap.html?_r=1&oref=slogin http://tobacco.org/news/253684.html The exhibition "Graphic Modernism From the Baltic to the Balkans, 1910-1935" at the New York Public Library. Above, a display containing designs from journals and literary magazines. . . . The curators, S. A. Mansbach and Wojciech Jan Siemaszkiewicz, have pulled rare books, journals and ephemera from the library's Slavic and Baltic division. Tattered, date-stamped and marked with the names of immigrant readers, these materials show new and reconstituted countries embracing the aesthetics of Modern art and design (though not always the radical politics.) . . . Then as now, advertisers cashed in on the counterculture. The cigarette rolling-paper company Modiano established relationships with Hungarian artists, publishing a multivolume survey of its favorites. On the cover of Volume 4, created by Janos Tabor, the letter O has been enlarged to accommodate the figure of a smoking man. As a suavely commercial use of Modernist design, it stands out in this literary context. New York Times Hungary Sat, 13 Oct 2007 04:00:00 GMT