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Our legal experts track the evolving regulation around the tobacco alternatives sector on a daily basis. These alerts are then compiled into our Monthly Round-up section.
26th May 2023
Vietnam: Deputy minister Tran Hong Ha has signed the National Strategy on Tobacco Harm Prevention and Control 2030. Measures include reducing the use of e-cigarettes, heated tobacco, and new tobacco products, and promulgating regulations for these products. Other details on how the measures will be implemented were not presented.26th May 2023
- Uzbekistan: A bill to regulate novel tobacco and nicotine products and ban their sale to under-21s has been officially published. It will come into force on 26th August 2023.
25th May 2023
23rd May 2023
India: The Health Ministry has called for stricter enforcement of the statutory ban, which covers manufacturing, import, export, distribution and advertising of heated tobacco devices as well as e-cigarettes, including parts and accessories, press reports.
22nd May 2023
- Bangladesh: Hossain Ali Khondoker, co-ordinator of the National Tobacco Control Cell (NTCC), told press that the government is currently working on amending Act No. 11/2005 on Smoking and Tobacco Products Usage (Tobacco Control Act) in order to ban electronic nicotine delivery systems (ENDS). Khondoker warned against ENDS, and reported that a harm-reduction approach is a misleading concept that misguides youths. Heated tobacco is not defined as a tobacco product in the Tobacco Control Act, or in its amendments.
22nd May 2023
- Philippines: The Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR) has issued a circular with the updated list of importers of heated tobacco and novel tobacco products, and their corresponding brands.
22nd May 2023
- Malaysia: The minister of health has said that the Tobacco and Smoking Control Bill 2022 – which seeks to ban the sale of tobacco products to anyone born after 1st January 2007 – will be discussed in the Cabinet this Friday, 26th May, with the hope of tabling it in the parliament this June once it is approved by the Cabinet, press reports. The bill also envisages notification, advertising and packaging requirements for heated tobacco products.
15th May 2023
- Vietnam: In a draft report on amendments to the Law on Special Consumption Tax, the Ministry of Finance has retained the proposal to tax e-cigarettes and heated tobacco. According to the report, if the products are allowed to be piloted, a new tax regulation will be developed. The Ministry of Trade and Industry is currently coordinating efforts to regulate and pilot heated tobacco and e-cigarettes, and a proposal is expected to be submitted to the government in the second quarter of 2023.
11th May 2023
Malaysia: The Ministry of Health said yesterday that the tabling of the Tobacco and Smoking Control Bill 2022, which seeks to ban the sale of tobacco products to anyone born after 2007, will be postponed to next month, instead of this month as originally planned, press reports.
9th May 2023
Philippines: The Bureau of Internal Revenue has updated price controls on heated tobacco products. A pack of 20 sticks now has a floor price of PHP120.40 ($2.16), taking into account excise duty, VAT and reasonable production costs.
8th May 2023
- Malaysia: In a poll carried out by CodeBlue – a local newspaper specialising in health matters – with 31 MPs, 14 said that they would vote in favour of the Tobacco and Smoking Control Bill 2022, the bill that would ban the sale of tobacco products to everyone born after 1st January 2007. None of the polled MPs directly opposed the bill, as the rest of the surveyed MPs were mostly undecided. CodeBlue conducted a similar poll back in July 2022, when, out of 40 MPs surveyed, only 12 said they would vote in favour of the bill and 26 said they would decide how they would vote after the publication of the draft bill.
