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The European Parliament has approved the new European directive on tobacco products, aimed at discouraging smoking. We discuss this on Radio24’s Cuori e Denari with Alberto Contri.

Tough times for cigarette lovers. The European Parliament has overwhelmingly approved the directive on shock-pack cigarettes. After more than ten years of warnings about the consequences of smoking, shocking images are now arriving to shock smokers (or try to). 65% of the package, in the upper part, must be very explicit: blackened lungs, people with mouth cancer, just to name a few examples. Smoking is bad for our health and for our wallets.

The cover is dedicated precisely to this campaign. Blackened lungs, yellowed teeth, wrinkles. This and more is what we will find on cigarette packets. But the question arises: will it be enough? We talk about it with Prof. Alberto Contri, President of the Pubblicità Progresso Foundation and professor of social communication at IULM.

According to the WHO, the World Health Organization, smoking is the leading cause of preventable death in our society. So quitting smoking is always and in any case a good thing. Nicoletta and Debora talk about it with Dr. Paolo Pozzi, from the anti-smoking center of the Milan Tumor Institute.

Easy Way to Stop Smoking is the title of Allen Carr’s book, a great success translated into 20 languages, with over 5,000,000 copies sold worldwide. The success comes from a simple approach. We talk about it with Francesca Cesati, head of Allen Carr Italia.

Consumer associations are also becoming very sensitive to the issue of smoking and addictions in general. Why? We find out with Lamberto Santini, President of ADOC.

After the boom in openings of retail outlets in Italy, it now seems that electronic cigarette shops are in sharp decline, so much so that many are for sale on Immobiliare.it. There are no big differences between North and South Italy, the trend seems to be uniform throughout the territory. We talk about it with Andrea Polo of Immobiliare.it.

On the day when the appointment of Janet Yellen, who will be the first female number one of the Federal Reserve, is made official, Debora and Nicoletta meet for the first time the “man of Cuore e Denari”: Morya Longo, of Il Sole 24 Ore, who will guide us in the world of finance and markets. The news of the day is the launch of a new seven-year BTP, and on the topic of investing in government bonds, we answer the questions and curiosities of our listeners.