The fingerprints of drug companies and their funded prohibitionist groups (that claim to be public health groups) are all over the proposed EU tobacco Products Directive. ...
One interesting fingerprint:
http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=SWD:2012:0453:FIN:EN:PDF (see under 3.1 b) )Producers of NRTs (Nicotine Replacement Therapies) expressed concern over the different treatment of NRTs and NCPs.