45First of all, it is to be recalled that the Court has already found that, at the time of adoption of Directive 98/43, disparities existed between national laws on the advertising of tobacco products and that there was a trend in national legislation towards ever greater restrictions (the tobacco advertising judgment, paragraphs 96 and 97).
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