56As the German and Slovenian Governments rightly submitted, the advertising of a medicinal product by means of prize draws encourages the irrational and excessive use of that medicinal product, by presenting it as a gift or a prize, thus distracting the consumer from an objective evaluation of whether he needs to take such medicine.
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