 According to Philip Morris International's 2018 annual report, “The tobacco union requested a stay of the enforcement of the ingredient ban while the appeal is pending”.The Brazilian government finally won the court case in February 2018.On 21 June 2013, EU health ministers agreed on a directive to ban menthol cigarettes (technically "dual flavour cigarettes") In response, the former German chancellor Helmut Schmidt (1918–2015) was reported to have hoarded 200 cartons of his preferred menthol cigarette brand in his house.