{"content":"<div class=\"ffb-id-13bau1l0 fg-paragraph ff-richtext text-left    fg-text-dark\">\r\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Overall there has been a big improvement in Europe in the last two years because of the 2003 EU directive banning tobacco advertising, and because of new smoke-free laws. The adoption by the European Parliament and Council in 2003 of Directive 2003\/33\/EC banning tobacco advertising and sponsorship with a cross-border dimension in all EU Member States was a very important development, and resulted in strengthening the legislation on advertising in many European countries (9). The adoption of laws banning smoking in public places was feared by the tobacco industry decades ago and in our 2006 paper we showed that the financial world concurred with this judgement and rated smoke-free legislation as having a significant impact on the market.<\/p>\r\n<\/div>","hash":"d48f9ac55df9586ab1047125d25088cd","css":"","js":""}