The government is to stop subsidising the anti-smoking lobby group Stivoro from 2013, reports Dutch News.

This year Stivoro was given a EUR 2.7 million government grant to run its stop smoking campaigns.
The health ministry says it will continue to fund small-scale campaigns based, for example, on schools but no more nationwide efforts, and last week announced last week that help for people who want to stop smoking will no longer be included in the basic health insurance package. (pi)