The bottom line is that the current TPD draft, if approved by the nations of the EU, will allow the continued sale of pharmaceutical products sold as aids to smoking cessation, which have been shown over and over again to be largely ineffective.

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The current list of draft proposals would be narrowed down before being discussed again by the trust in January 2013, said Mr Long.

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The draft Gender Recognition Bill was published one year after a landmark ruling by the European Court of Human Rights that current UK law breached transsexuals' human rights.

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Authors of the current version, led by Barda Nawawi Arief of Diponegoro University in central Java, used that draft as a point of departure.

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