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No (Cheap) Smoking Allowed – French National Legislation on the Pricing of Cigarettes and EU Law

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

Petros C. Mavroidis*
Affiliation:
Columbia Law School, New York City, Law at the University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland
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Abstract

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Case Notes
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2010

References

1 Judgment of 4 March 2010.

2 I am not suggesting that such argument is watertight. I suggest this argument though in order to circumscribe the argument made by France.

3 Option (b) is, of course, much closer to the French decree.

4 Consistency might ease transaction costs, but is not in and of itself a value for one could be consistently wrong.