-- BRUSSELS, Belgium -- The European Commission said Tuesday it will take Finland to court again — and ask for it to pay a €2 million (US$2.8 million) penalty, plus daily fines — for failing to ban chewing tobacco in the Swedish-speaking Aland Islands.
European regulators said all oral tobacco — whether chewing tobacco or snus — is dangerous because it contains "particularly large quantities" of cancer-causing chemicals.
Only Sweden has an exemption to an EU ban on the smokeless tobacco called snus that is usually stuck under the upper lip.
Forget about genocide in Darfur...
Or whether Iran gets nuclear weapons... the European Union has bigger fish to fry.
