Tobacco Taxation Excise Duties For Manufactured Tobacco Products Updated Rules 03 September 2025 – 31 October 2025
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Total submissions
18478
03 Sep 2025 – 31 Oct 2025
Against proposal
88.6%
16364 entries
Countries represented
88
887 duplicates (4.8%)
Manual labels collected
4850
by 4 reviewer(s)
Submissions with attachment
1.5%
279 with attachment · 18199 text-only
Stance model
18 runs
accuracy 98.7% · F1 98.7%
latest: 88.6% against · 11.4% for · 0.0% unclear
1988 pseudo-labels · 2026-04-02 00:32
avg confidence · against 99.9% · for 99.5% · unclear 52.6%
manual agreement: 93.7% (4669 reviewed)
Stance distribution
88.6% Against (16364) 11.4% For (2109) 0.03% Unclear (5)
Model training progress
88.56% Against 11.41% For 0.03% Unclear ·98.69% Eval acc. 94.29% Manual agree
Submission volume
Submitter types
Stance breakdown
Stance by submitter type
Stance over time
Stance by country (top 10)
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Who supports the proposal? (% For by type)
Who opposes the proposal? (% Against by type)
Geographic distribution
Top 10 countries
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Submissions by country
Submissions by country over time
Content analysis
Top keywords
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Top phrases (bigrams)
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Submissions by language
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Submission length median 152 words
Stance by submission length
Duplicate analysis
Near-duplicate rate by submitter type (≥95%)
Text duplicate group sizes largest: 12
Near-duplicate count by submitter type (≥95%)
Most-submitted duplicate attachments (max: 6) —
Bot & coordinated submission detection
High semantic similarity (≥95%)
3.3%
602 of 18478 entries
Time burst entries (≤300 s)
95.1%
17572 entries in 652 burst groups
Largest burst group
3922
avg 1162.3 entries per burst
Submissions & high-similarity entries over time (≥95%)
Semantic similarity distribution
Similarity patterns
Burst size vs similarity
Similarity over time (daily median ± IQR)
Similarity distribution by stance (% within stance)
Submission timing
Submissions by day & hour — all (CET/CEST — because the EU still hasn't fixed daylight saving)
Submissions by day & hour — EU-27 only (CET/CEST — the EU should just pick UTC+1.5 and disappoint everyone equally)
Hourly pattern — private vs corporate, all
Hourly pattern — private vs corporate, EU-27