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Economics
13 June 2025
In the Media
17 June 2025
Healthcare
Communications Manager Reem Ibrahim has written for FEE on the Nanny State Index.
The article said:
“Governments across the world insist on telling adults how they must behave. The liberty to make your own lifestyle choices is continuously eroding, with new bans and taxes being implemented at every corner, usually in the name of “protecting public health.”
“Last Thursday, the Institute of Economic Affairs published its biannual Nanny State Index, a ranking of 29 European countries on the stringency of their lifestyle regulations. At the top of the list was Turkey, with its heavy anti-alcohol laws and complete ban on e-cigarettes, snus, and heated tobacco. Trailing right behind is Lithuania, with a ban on vape flavors, incredibly high taxes on heated tobacco (€222/kg), and the highest alcohol duty in the EU, after adjusting for affordability.
“Germany, Luxembourg, and several Southern European countries remain at the more liberal end of the Nanny State Index. Germany has no sugar tax, no plain packaging, no restrictions on e-cigarette flavors, and no retail display bans. Adjusted for income, Luxembourg has the lowest taxes on alcohol and cigarettes of any of the 29 countries in the index. It has no wine duty, no sugar tax, and nicotine pouches are legal to use.”
Read the full article here.
The article said:
“Governments across the world insist on telling adults how they must behave. The liberty to make your own lifestyle choices is continuously eroding, with new bans and taxes being implemented at every corner, usually in the name of “protecting public health.”
“Last Thursday, the Institute of Economic Affairs published its biannual Nanny State Index, a ranking of 29 European countries on the stringency of their lifestyle regulations. At the top of the list was Turkey, with its heavy anti-alcohol laws and complete ban on e-cigarettes, snus, and heated tobacco. Trailing right behind is Lithuania, with a ban on vape flavors, incredibly high taxes on heated tobacco (€222/kg), and the highest alcohol duty in the EU, after adjusting for affordability.
“Germany, Luxembourg, and several Southern European countries remain at the more liberal end of the Nanny State Index. Germany has no sugar tax, no plain packaging, no restrictions on e-cigarette flavors, and no retail display bans. Adjusted for income, Luxembourg has the lowest taxes on alcohol and cigarettes of any of the 29 countries in the index. It has no wine duty, no sugar tax, and nicotine pouches are legal to use.”
Read the full article here.
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