44Second, it must be held that, in order for such a penalty to ensure a genuinely dissuasive effect, while respecting the general principle of proportionality, offenders must actually be deprived of the economic advantages resulting from infringements linked to the sale of tobacco products to minors and the penalties must be capable of producing results proportionate to the seriousness of such infringements, thereby effectively discouraging further infringements of the same kind.
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