On 16 February 2022, Parliament’s plenary adopted its final proposals on how to strengthen the EU’s role in the fight against cancer. They include the following: 

1. Taking stronger EU action to address key risk factors and social determinants of cancer

The report strongly supports the goal of a ‘tobacco-free generation’ and calls for, inter alia:
- funding programmes that promote smoking cessation
- an increase and an upward convergence in minimum excise duties for all tobacco products and their final market price
- strict enforcement of the ban on characterising flavours in tobacco products, and a call for the Commission to evaluate which flavours in e-cigarettes are in particular attractive to minors and non-smokers, and propose a ban on these, as well as a ban on all characteristic flavours in heated tobacco products and novel tobacco products
- scientific evaluations of health risks related to electronic cigarettes , heated tobacco products and novel tobacco products
- rapid and complete implementation of the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC) and the WHO Protocol to Eliminate Illicit Trade in Tobacco Products

underlines that harmful alcohol consumption is a risk factor for many different cancers and calls for, inter alia:
- promotion of actions to reduce and prevent alcohol-related harm within the framework of a revised EU alcohol strategy, including a European strategy of zero alcohol consumption for minors
- better information to consumers by improving the labelling of alcohol beverages to include moderate and responsible drinking information and introducing the mandatory indication of ingredients and nutritional information
- prohibition of alcohol advertising and sponsorchip at sport events when those events are mainly attended by minor