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"Mr President, we all know that this is an unusually important report we are dealing with here. It is important because we are here and now considering just how credible the European Union’s policy on public health is. I am sorry that the Committee on Legal Affairs and the Internal Market has also expressed opinions that the Court ban on tobacco advertising would in some way render this directive null and void. By no means is that true, as this directive concerns the content of cigarettes and not measures to promote tobacco sales. Parliament should no longer be deluded in this matter; it should understand that it is now vital to show support for Mr Maaten’s excellent report.
Now to the matter of whether the words ‘light’ or ‘mild’ on brands of tobacco should now be banned. We should keep to our opinion that such misleading descriptions cannot be allowed, and the decision of the Court in October brings nothing new to this matter. We must maintain the stand we took on this before. We must understand that all those countries that have undertaken to draft fairly tough legislation on tobacco have clearly seen deaths from lung cancer and heart and vascular disease brought under control. We should be able to promote all of this in the European Union’s common single market policy as well, which must be based on high standards of protection when it comes to public health."@en1
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