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Tobacco, alcohol & drugs

Decisions about tobacco, nicotine products, alcohol or illicit drugs.

Decisions: 5 on 4 sitting days
Outcomes: 3 adopted · 2 rejected
Period: 28 Nov 2024 – 17 Sept 2026
Assigned by: A model, not checked by hand

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Roll-call votes: 4
By kind: New laws 2 · Resolutions 3
Part of: Health
Key: health/tobacco-alcohol

Roll-call votes: 4
By kind: New laws 2 · Resolutions 3
Part of: Health
Key: health/tobacco-alcohol

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Decisions, 5

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The latest decisions on this subtopic, newest first; the export holds all of them.

**Effect**: what the decision did. **Final vote**: for–against–abstained, and how it was recorded.
Date	Decision	Kind	Effect	Final vote
17 Sept 2026	Narco-trafficking in Europe’s waters: protecting our borders and supporting our law enforcement officers	Resolutions	Adopted	601 for, 4 against, 5 abstained by roll call
17 Jun 2026	Structure and rates of excise duty applied to tobacco and tobacco related products (recast)	New laws	Failed	181 for, 439 against, 38 abstained by roll call
17 Jun 2026	General arrangements for excise duty applied to tobacco and tobacco related products	New laws	Passed	325 for, 304 against, 29 abstained by roll call
20 Jan 2026	Murder of Mehdi Kessaci – urgent need for ambitious European action against drug trafficking	Resolutions	Adopted	show of hands — no count
28 Nov 2024	Recommendation on smoke- and aerosol-free environments	Resolutions	Rejected	152 for, 378 against, 26 abstained by roll call

Dossiers, 5

The dossiers these decisions belong to, the one voted on most recently first.

**Decisions**: decisions on the dossier counted here. **Latest decision**: its date and outcome.
Dossier	Decisions	Latest decision
Narco-trafficking in Europe’s waters: protecting our borders and supporting our law enforcement officers 2026-2797	Decisions1	17 Sept 2026 · Adopted
Structure and rates of excise duty applied to tobacco and tobacco related products (recast) 2025-0580	Decisions1	17 Jun 2026 · Rejected
General arrangements for excise duty applied to tobacco and tobacco related products 2025-0581	Decisions1	17 Jun 2026 · Adopted
Murder of Mehdi Kessaci – urgent need for ambitious European action against drug trafficking 2025-3020	Decisions1	20 Jan 2026 · Adopted
Recommendation on smoke- and aerosol-free environments 2024-2911	Decisions1	28 Nov 2024 · Rejected

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Group lines

How each group voted on the final votes of this subtopic: its clear line or divided.

The last 4 final roll-call votes. Each group’s line on the final votes, with members counted in the group they sat in on the day; a **clear line** = at least two thirds of the group’s votes with at least 10 members voting (method). **For / Against / Abstained**: its clear line. **Divided**: no clear line. **With the outcome**: votes where its majority line matched the result. **Votes**: finals the group voted on.
Group	For	Against	Abstained	Divided	With the outcome	Votes
The Left	For2	Against2	Abst.0	Divided0	With outcome2	of4
Greens	For1	Against3	Abst.0	Divided0	With outcome3	of4
S&D	For1	Against3	Abst.0	Divided0	With outcome3	of4
Renew	For1	Against2	Abst.0	Divided1	With outcome3	of4
EPP	For3	Against0	Abst.0	Divided1	With outcome2	of4
ECR	For2	Against2	Abst.0	Divided0	With outcome4	of4
Patriots	For2	Against2	Abst.0	Divided0	With outcome4	of4
ESN	For1	Against3	Abst.0	Divided0	With outcome3	of4

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Sources & citation

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Permalink: https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/topics/health?sub=tobacco-alcohol
Data source: European Parliament Open Data
Licensed CC BY 4.0.
Retrieved: 26 September 2026

Cite as

EU Parl Watch Research (2026). “Tobacco, alcohol & drugs”. Topic (model-assigned). EU Parl Watch Research. https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/topics/health?sub=tobacco-alcohol (retrieved 26 September 2026). Data: European Parliament Open Data, https://data.europarl.europa.eu/ (CC BY 4.0).

BibTeX

@misc{epw-topic-health-tobacco-alcohol,
  author = {{EU Parl Watch Research}},
  title = {{Tobacco, alcohol \& drugs}},
  year = {2026},
  howpublished = {\url{https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/topics/health?sub=tobacco-alcohol}},
  url = {https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/topics/health?sub=tobacco-alcohol},
  urldate = {2026-09-26},
  publisher = {EU Parl Watch Research},
  note = {Topic (model-assigned). Data: European Parliament Open Data (CC BY 4.0)}
}