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John Larkin wrote:

If Europeans want to save lives, they should
discourage smoking.

All European countries want to, with the quite influential exception of
Germany. I seem to remember having read that Germany was the world's biggest
cigarette exporter. That and some EUR 14b annual tobacco tax income say
progress is going to be slow, but there is some.

robert